Talk:Existence precedes essence

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The concept is problematic as in the real world human beings come into existence through biology. With their essence being biological in nature all of their concepts of value and meaning must ultimately be grounded in sociobiology. Thus their essence would precede their existence and thus any values they could construct must ultimately be parameterized by their evolutionary psychology.

That's a biological determinist argument and if someone wants to add that as a separate section on critiques of existence preceding essence, that's fine. But otherwise it's very POV.

Fokion 16:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

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I don't know where this could be written without a considerable rewrite (indeed, too considerable for me to consider at this time), but the definition of the phrase relies purely on the chronological interpretation of 'precedes'. If something could be thrown in using the logical reading that'd be great (or i'll just do it sometime =]) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andyroo g (talk • contribs) 22:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)