# Existence precedes essence

- Id: `existence_precedes_essence`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/existence-precedes-essence/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `04044618be5cde72f7456b81d911abee72212d9566c726f9b103f8b54ad2906c`

## Summary

To say that existence precedes essence means that a human first appears in a situation and then becomes defined through actions, not by a model fixed in advance.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 20 passages across 1 works, including Existentialism Is a Humanism. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:sartre.existentialisme_humanisme:lecture-03",
    "passage:sartre.existentialisme_humanisme:lecture-02",
    "passage:sartre.existentialisme_humanisme:lecture-01"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "l'existence précède l'essence",
    "l’existence précède l’essence",
    "existence precedes essence"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 20,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "sartre.existentialisme_humanisme",
        "title": "Existentialism Is a Humanism",
        "author": "Jean-Paul Sartre",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jean-paul-sartre/existentialisme-humanisme/"
    }
]
```