Existentailism assingment

Section one of this starts with a quote which is a good quote and makes me think of how we have taken our freedom and what we have made of it. The quote says, “Life in itself is neither good nor evil. It is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it” (Montaigne).

This reading was very deep and De Beauvoir was introducing many concepts and also refereeing to many other philosophers such as Kant, Dostoevsky, Marx, Descartes, and Hegel among many others. It was a good read and I believe that reading this one more time would make me see even more themes as I did before, because as many times as I read each page, there were new things that would pop out to me and I would relate it to my current life.

For example, this quote got me thinking about my life and its purpose and what I have made of it. “Every man is originally free, in the sense that he spontaneously casts himself into the world…human spontaneity always projects itself toward something”. (9).

I look at this section of the article and it makes me think about my own life and how much freedom in life do I have and how am I using it. I feel that freedom is given to people, and people are free, if we take this premise, I would think that a person’s choice of being lazy, hardworking, choosing a particular path or crossing path with the right people would be very important for a person to come someone that is free and happy and is content with the freedom that the person has.

So there are different types of people who have different character types, and these character types, I believe, made a person who he or she is and what they want to achieve in life. How will they use their freedom and how can they live a life, which is in term existentialist life where they have the freedom to turn their life around.

A few questions I was thinking after reading this were if a person’s socio economic status would affect a person’s freedom even as a child. I was trying to find this answer in the pages I read but I found myself asking if external circumstances, especially of a child who is born in lower socioeconomic status than a child who is born in a higher socioeconomic status.