... determines what we do. One argument posited by Satre to support this belief was the argument from Direct Experience. Satre thought that, for example, the emotion of anguish shows that we hold radical freedom over our lives - we experience anguish because we do not know what to do and that our future is open. However, thinking that we are free to act or feeling that we are free to act does not mean that this is so. Take John Locke's analogy of a sleeping person being taken into a room which is subsequently locked, waking up and deciding that they wish to remain in the room. They don't know that the door is locked and they can't leave but as they don't want to they don't know that they are locked in. This can be translated in relation to freewill and determinism into a representation of humanity. We believe ...

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