PHILOSOPHERS' STONE.PART I39

he brought Atheism into existentialism and met his patner Simone de Beauvoir in a cafe.Hence his allegiance was atheistic existentialism and did make a merciless analysis of human situation which Nietzsche call God Is Dead'.He believed man's existence is much more important than anything else and no man has such innate nature.That man must therefore be the creator of himself and the essence that is not fixed in advance.Man has no such eternal nature to fall upon and a useless thing to search for life meaning in general.We are doomed like artists to improvise,with no lines,no scripts to act upon.When we realise tha one day we will die there is no meaning to life to cling to.Man he says feels alien in this world without meaning and he says man's freedom is a curse.Man is condemned to be freed and nevertheless free,given that he has not created himself.There are no eternal values to ascribe,which makes our choices critical and man must disclaim responsibility for his actions.He was not a nihilist even though