Perhaps we can start defining nothingness with the consciousness existence inferring that human nature does not exist which is defined by their era, not by nature. Probably this makes the man considered a being in anguish by nature, invariably inclined to do evil, this anguish is the total absence of justification accompanied, at the same time, by responsibility toward all. In a way can be considered nothingness as his own experience, a freedom which reveals itself to us in anguish that can be characterized by the existence of that nothing which insinuates itself between motives and act. This consciousness confronts its past and its future in a pre-reflective and reflective way as facing a self-consciousness that it is in the mode of not being.
Noticing the consciousness existence in a free will, infers in the treatment of the choice. The choice is always possible, but what is impossible is not to choose, where we must realize that, if I decide not to choose, that still constitutes a choice. In addition, we are free to choose or to invent. No general code of ethics exists that can tell you the good and the bad things of the parts. One can choose anything, as long as it involves free commitment. It is then the choice important to our freedom, that confirms a feeling by an act for example. A choice is said to be free by nature if it is such that it could have been other than what it is, even if having bad faith as part of a self-negation, it is the best to choose and to examine one specific attitude which is essential to human reality and which is such that consciousness instead of directing its negation outward turns it toward itself, generating our own character.
Man is condemned to be free then, because he did not create himself, he is responsible for everything he does in the world, and because his is always outside of himself, he is pursuing his transcendence. Man is nothing other that his own project, a project of life. He exists only to be extent that he realizes himself, therefore he is nothing more than the sum of his actions, nothing more than his life. One can choose anything, so long as it involves free commitment. Existentialism will never consider man as an end, because man is constantly in the making. The man is the future of the man.*
*Essay in replica to Being and nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre
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