For questions about the philosophical work of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a French philosopher and novelist.
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What does Sartre mean by "freedom alone can account for a person in his totality"?
Could you please tell me what is the meaning of Sartre's saying: "freedom alone can account for a person in his totality"? (Genet, 584)
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What is the title of Sarte's essay on eye/sight/vision?
I read an essay by Sartre many years ago. It was an interesting discussion about eye, eyesight and vision. I cannot remember the details, and that's why I want to read it again. Do you know the title of such essay from Sartre?
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Is it correct to describe genuine possibilities as 'pure nothing'?
Source: p 193, Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (2012) by Prof. Sharon Kaye MA PhD (in Philosophy, U. Toronto)
Right now you are reading this book. Stop for a moment and
think of yourself getting up and throwing the book out of the…
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Just what is negation in Sartre's philosophy?
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre discusses negation in a number of contexts, but I cannot for the life of me figure out a definition of it--even a rough one. So far as I can tell, it is not merely a logical operation and it is not just a…
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In which published work(s) did Sartre claim to have reinvented or reshaped his thinking?
Sartre is among the most protean and prolific philosophers of the 20th c. He sustained many radical transformations in his thinking with each one requiring, according to him, a complete overhaul of the foundations of his thought from the ground up.…
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To personify bad faith, why did Sartre pick on waiters rather than a more powerful occupation?
I am not a philosopher. But I did work at a restaurant when I was younger, and my daughter is studying philosophy in school. Sartre's following quotations feel like bullying, spurning waiters. Doubtless, waiters have been remunerated relatively…
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What does Sartre think about the being of animals? According to sartre, how are animals and humans different?
Let me summarize my understanding of Sartres thinking regarding being and nothingness.
The Nothingness
Its a physical state which doesn't exist at the moment, but maybe it could exist at some day, or have been existed sometime in the history.…
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Would Jean-Paul Sartre say that we are bound by our comprehension of our "situation"?
Sartre states, in his book 'Being and Nothingness' the following:
Therefore there is no priviledged situation...There is no situation
in which the given would crush beneath its weight the freedom which
constitutes it as such-and that conversely…
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Why does 'I did this' express nausea per Sartre, but not 'I want to do this '?
Source: Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (2012) by Prof. Sharon Kaye MA PhD (in Philosophy, U. Toronto)
[ p 198: ] Despite its enthusiastic celebration of human freedom, there is
a dark side to existentialism. Sartre memorably quipped that we…
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