I believe that Sartre's essential philosophical position is that man can be a hero to himself and to his fellow men, regardless of the fact that this heroism exists in a meaningless void, a void which the collapse of belief in a Higher Being has enabled. Thus there is no code of behavior beyond that which Man individually establishes, or that Men agree upon as a civilized construct. Motivation shall no longer be typified by Salvation or Redemption, but by Man reaching within to manifest the best parts of his inborn nature, sometimes in defiance of his immediate urges, often in rebellion against the existing order.

That human beings can live in this fashion presupposes a certain level of ethical maturity that I fear does not exist in the great majority of individuals. As an intellectual, Sartre was a captive to an element of elitism in his philosophy, I believe. OR it may be my basic cynicism that makes me sceptical of the average man's ability to attain this kind of self-imposed transcendence and nobility. Either way, those who would call Existentialism an amoral or anarchistic philosophy are off-target by 180 degrees.