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Stephen Hicks discusses Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous phrase “existence precedes essence” and its implications for the Existentialist view of human nature. This is from Part 11 of his Philosophy of Education course.
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(See also my episode on Sartre’s essay “Existentialism Is a Humanism’ in the Philosophers, Explained series.)