What is Existentialism?

Have you ever wondered if you were born with a set personality, kind of like the instructions printed on the back of a toy box? Or do you invent yourself from scratch every single day? Join Mira and Finn on a time-traveling adventure to a packed, rock-star-level lecture in Paris in 1945! We are meeting a famous French philosopher named Jean-Paul Sartre who completely flipped how people think about human beings upside down. He used a simple paper knife to explain a massive, brain-bending idea called Existentialism! While a tool is designed with a specific purpose before it is made, Sartre said humans are the exact opposite. We just exist first, and we decide our purpose later through our actions! The room was so incredibly crowded with people wanting to hear this idea that listeners were fainting from the heat and the police had to be called! Discover the super-freeing secret of Existentialism: you are never finished! A bad day does not settle who you are. Tune in to find out why you are definitely not a paper knife!