Now we are talking. Now we both have opposing third party acounts. I will accept that Sartre and Beauvoir require free will for existentialism. However I found this on Camus:
“While the question of human freedom in the metaphysical sense loses interest to the absurd man, he gains freedom in a very concrete sense: no longer bound by hope for a better future or eternity, without a need to pursue life’s purpose or to create meaning, “he enjoys a freedom with regard to common rules”.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_Sisyphus
(which makes sense since my existential reading is mostly Camus while yours seems to be Sartre)
My argument is this:
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All I need is one existentialist that does not require denial of determinism to mean that they are compatible concepts. Camus provides that one.
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All the quotes above are personal accounts of existentialism (Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir). I have provided an academic account of existentialism itself that says that existentialism does not inherently reject determinism (the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provided previously).
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If free will was a requirement of existentialism than it would have to say so in all formal definitions. Yet neither of us have found any dictionaries or encyclopedias that say this yet. If it was a requirement it would be standard. But all we have is one account that says the opposite.