DE Weekly: Icarus, Folly, & Radical Freedom

“Man is condemned to be free;” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, “because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.” In an existence where we are “thrown,” left to our own devices to make use of our radical freedom, where do we go? What do we do? When do we stop?

The existentialists celebrated the radical freedom we are born into, hyper fixating on the fact that we may create a life of meaning through the choices we make.