DiscussionMost Western philosophies and monotheistic traditions base the creation of man on a conception of God. God is the chief craftsman who is the creator of all, and the divine design of man is conceived before the creation of man. For Sartre, this means that because God created humanity through a design, it must mean that we are all created according to that design and that we are created for a purpose, or as Sartre defines human nature (Sartre, p 206-207). As an atheist existentialist Sartre sees a problem with the notion of a divine creator, because it would mean that our essence precedes our existence. Jean Paul Sartre's notion that existence precedes essence is his ideology that debates freedom and human choice. Sartre's fundamental assertion is that the existence of humanity exists before there is a conception of values ​​and morality, of human nature (Sartre, p. 207). For Sartre, humanity is born with a blank slate, with no predetermined value and no fundamental essence that humanity shares. Therefore, this means that because we do not have a particular abstract ideal of human nature, we are all responsible for creating our own construct of essence through the choices we make. We define ourselves by the sum of the choices and actions we make. (Sartre, p. 208) Sartre's argument denies the traditional philosophy of an existing human nature, or an ideal summary of the being with which we are all born. Sartre's theory articulates the absence of an omniscient creator (Sartre, p. 209). Sartre believes that man creates his nature and finds value in his free choices. Sartre develops this through his concept of freedom by establishing that our consciousness is separate from the physical world; it is unrestricted and therefore must be free. (Sartre, p. 239-241) The radical freedom expressed by Sartre, however, has restrictions of facticity. The limitations that are instilled in us, the situations in which we are all immersed restrict certain possibilities of our freedom, this is what we call facticity. Facticity is the situation we find ourselves in, but that doesn't change the fact that we are always more than our situation; we always have a choice and are destined to do so. (Sartre, p. 240-241) Analysis: To accept that existence precedes essence, one would have to reach the conclusion that there is no innate human nature and therefore no god to conceive it (Sartre , p. 207). For many Western philosophies and monotheistic religions this proves to be a problem and they challenge existentialism in this regard..