Philosophical concept
Existence precedes essence
To say that existence precedes essence means that a human first appears in a situation and then becomes defined through actions, not by a model fixed in advance.
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Understand uses of the concept
To say that existence precedes essence means that a human first appears in a situation and then becomes defined through actions, not by a model fixed in advance.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 20 passages across 1 works, including Existentialism Is a Humanism. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: l'existence précède l'essence, l’existence précède l’essence, existence precedes essence
Works where the concept is identified
- Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre · 20 passages