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title: "Sartre: Existence precedes essence"
date: "2017-09-20T14:41:25+01:00"
modified: "2021-11-18T19:00:55+00:00"
url: "https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/res_externalresource/sartre-existence-precedes-essence/"
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# Sartre: Existence precedes essence

[Sartre: Existence precedes essence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpXNRrtuo38&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9BiMexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=37): A BBC animation on Sartre’s belief that human beings are free to make create themselves through what they do and the responsibility this places upon us