The Ideal of God as an Escape from Freedom

The purpose of this work is to clarify and reclaim the concept of freedom from the perspective of Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as to disseminate the concept of secular morality, which is detached from the ideal of a guiding God, built and consolidated over the centuries. Freedom, as presented by the existentialist author, is alien to all determinism; “man is freedom†. Once he exists, he is responsible for what he does. A critical or analytical perspective is suggested on how the conception or belief in an “ideal of God†(not necessarily the existence of God itself, but the way humans construct and relate to this idea) can be used or function as a mechanism to evade the full assumption of one’s own freedom and the responsibility that this entails.