What is the basic principle that makes an act into an act

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Topic: Sartre's Being and Nothingness

Question 1. What is the basic principle that makes an act into an act and distinguishes it from other things that humans might do or cause, according to Sartre?

Question 2. Sartre says that his definition of an act means that an act must recognize something. What must it necessarily recognize?

Question 3. A person might take a low-paying job to avoid starving. But what does Sartre say is the real motivation?

Question 4. Sartre argues that a war is always "my war." Why is this? He mentions a number of ways of getting out of participating a war. Why do these still leave the war as "my war"?

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