Here he is saying that when we make a choice for ourselves we are also making a choice for all of mankind because, “there is not a single one of our acts which does not at the same time create an image of man as we think he ought to be”(Sartre 5, 1957). So, when we make a choice we are making a choice that reflects what we want mankind to be like. If we make a choice that reflects mankind in a poorly we feel anguish towards this decision because we not only made ourselves look bad, we made mankind look bad as a whole. The last area is responsibility for attitude; it is impossible to not have an attitude so you become authentic in the way you choose your attitude First you must choose your attitude towards a situation, then you must be comfortable with the attitude you have chosen and voice within you. If you are not authentic with your attitude then you have a strong feeling of despair, which “has a very simple meaning. It means that we shall confine ourselves to reckoning only with what depends upon our will, or on the ensemble of probabilities which make our action possible” (Sartre 12, 1957). Here he is
Here he is saying that when we make a choice for ourselves we are also making a choice for all of mankind because, “there is not a single one of our acts which does not at the same time create an image of man as we think he ought to be”(Sartre 5, 1957). So, when we make a choice we are making a choice that reflects what we want mankind to be like. If we make a choice that reflects mankind in a poorly we feel anguish towards this decision because we not only made ourselves look bad, we made mankind look bad as a whole. The last area is responsibility for attitude; it is impossible to not have an attitude so you become authentic in the way you choose your attitude First you must choose your attitude towards a situation, then you must be comfortable with the attitude you have chosen and voice within you. If you are not authentic with your attitude then you have a strong feeling of despair, which “has a very simple meaning. It means that we shall confine ourselves to reckoning only with what depends upon our will, or on the ensemble of probabilities which make our action possible” (Sartre 12, 1957). Here he is