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As Sartre writes in his work Existentialism is a Humanism: "... man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.

" Of course, the more positive, therapeutic aspect of this is also implied: A person can choose to act in a different way, and to be a good person instead of a cruel person.

Here it is also clear that since humans can choose to be either cruel or good, they are, in fact, neither of these things essentially.