When we say, \u201cYou are nothing else than your life,\u201d that does not imply that the artist will be judged solely on the basis of his works of art; a thousand other things will contribute toward summing him up. What we mean is that a man is nothing else than a series of undertakings, that he is the sum, the organization, the ensemble of the relationships which make up these undertakings.<\/p>\n
When the existentialist writes about a coward, he says that this coward is responsible for his cowardice. He\u2019s not like that because he has a cowardly heart or lung or brain; he\u2019s not like that on account of his physiological make-up; but he\u2019s like that because he has made himself a coward by his acts.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no such thing as a cowardly constitution; there are nervous constitutions; there is poor blood, as the common people say, or strong constitutions. But the man whose blood is poor is not a coward on that account, for what makes cowardice is the act of renouncing or yielding. A constitution is not an act; the coward is defined on the basis of the acts he performs.<\/p>\n
People feel, in a vague sort of way, that this coward we\u2019re talking about is guilty of being a coward, and the thought frightens them, What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what people really want to think. If you\u2019re born cowardly, you may set your mind perfectly at rest; there\u2019s nothing you can do about it; you\u2019ll be cowardly all your life, whatever you may do. If you\u2019re born a hero, you may set your mind just as much at rest; you\u2019ll be a hero all your life; you\u2019ll drink like a hero and eat like a hero.<\/p>\n
What the existentialist says is that the coward makes himself cowardly, that the hero makes himself heroic. There\u2019s always a possibility for the coward not to be cowardly any more and for the hero to stop being heroic. What counts is total involvement; some one particular action or set of circumstances is not total involvement. Thus, I think we have answered a number of the charges concerning existentialism. You see that it can not be taken for a philosophy of quietism, since it defines man in terms of action; nor for a pessimistic description of man\u2014there is no doctrine more optimistic, since man\u2019s destiny is within himself; nor for an attempt to discourage man from acting, since it tells him that the only hope is in his acting and that action is the only thing that enables a man to live.<\/p>\n
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