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uniqueness of each individual and the unpredictability of his actions. Not since Europides repudiated the mythology of the Greek gods had any playwright before Sartre considered these fundamental concepts and proclaimed that we are all responsible for our actions, we are what we conceive ourselves to be, nothing else but what we will ourselves to be. “Man has been abandoned sayv, «*nd with this abandonment he is condemned to be free.” What man needs, he thinks, is to find himself again and to understand that nothing can save him from himself. The existence or non-exitense of God would not change this basic premise. “In this sense existentialism is optimistic, it is a doctrine of action without self-deception.”
The Creationists and the Evolutionists are still pondering these fundamental concepts.
The problem will perdure for all eternity yet we should thank Sartre for showing us that we cannot use God as an excuse for our actions. RAAC has now brought us two plays of the theater of the Absurd: Eugene Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” and Jean-Paul Sartre’ “No Exit,” both of which champion the uniqueness of the individual and his privilege to be free, free from conventions and rigidity of thought.
BERNARD E. NUNEZ
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