Sartre

Sartre believes in a lie to oneself.  Human beings are some of the only beings that freely choose what we do with our lives.  If someone says something that is mean to you, you are the only person that can make you feel badly about it, you could shake it off and continue with your day.  I play a sport, my role is to be a student athlete, because I want to, I could easily quit it because it is interfering with my school work, but I play it because I love the sport.  Because I am a student athlete, I put myself into situations that include: lack of sleep, stress, and injury.  Obviously being a student you are prone to these situations as well, but being an athlete as well as a student is harder than others think.  Sartre believes everyone has roles, that allow us to be who we want to be; without that free will, we are seen as objects.  Sartre goes so far to explain his view point on free will, with his thought on vertigo.  He thinks that you are scared of heights because you really have a fear of jumping.  You have a decision to either step off or not step off and you feel the magnitude of our life and how easy it will be to end it.  Nothing is stopping you except your own freedom.  Sartre also says that we choose not to know things.  We can have a problem and deal with it later.  If you have a conflict, you can label it as a project and deal with it later.  Sartre has interesting view points.  I do believe that we have the free will in some of the situations that happen in our life, but if there is a problem that occurs, you can’t sweep issues under the rug.  You need to deal with them head on.