Questions tagged [sartre]
For questions about the philosophical work of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a French philosopher and novelist.
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How has the metaphysics of free will dealt away with Sartre's answer?
Sartre famously argued that we are inescapably free. The summed up argument can be found in the book Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy:
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Can Zizek's big Other be seen as a collective form of "bad faith"?
I refer to this question to define the big Other for Zizek.
Couldn't the big Other be seen as what enforces the mauvaise foi (what makes us behave like we have no choice to avoid existential dread), ...
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Can someone help with these passages Sartre's BeIng and Nothingness on Knowledge?
P295 ‘The for itself does not exist subsequently to know; neither can we say that it exists only in so far it knows or is known…regulated by particular bits of Knowledge.’
P296 ‘to say that there is ...
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Does Sartre's disdain of some professions contradict Kant's Categorical Imperative?
Preface: Source 2 quoted this same passage but in English. As I can read French, I quoted the French original but please command me to post the English translation if I should have.
Source 1: p 94, L'...
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What is the relationship between positional and non-positional consciousness for Sartre?
I am wondering when one is non-positionally conscious of a feeling, is that feeling facticity or also positional consciousness of an object? In a word is reflection in the presence to self duality ...
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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, ...
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Is love a phenomenon of mauvaise foi?
In front of love, is still men condemned to be free? Arguably, when in love, the infinite range of possible choices collapses in one, the loved one. Is this a form of mauvaise foi (we convince ...
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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
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Question about Sartre's The Imaginary
I have been doing a course on edx.org entitled The Conscious Mind - A Philosophical Road Trip. It's a gentle beginner's guide to phenomenology, and I am a gentle beginner to philosophy in general (and ...
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Is this assertion by Sartre an existentialist reading Pascal's Pensées?
In his book What Is Literature?, Sartre says:
Here, I am thinking of Pascal, who relentlessly repeated that man was an irrational composite of metaphysics and history, his greatness unexplainable
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Is Deleuze's characterization of Sartre (that his central obsession was "lakes of non-being and the viscosity of matter") fair?
In his essay entitled My teacher Gilles Deleuze characterises the "central obsession" of Sartre as being "lakes of non-being and the viscosity of matter".
Is this a fair characterisation of Sartre's ...
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Can someone help me with the meaning of these passages in Sartre's Being and Nothingness on motion?
What do these passages mean, could someone please kindly clarify them.
‘Motion is the pure change of place affecting a this which remains otherwise unaltered as is shown clearly enough by our ...
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Sartre and metaphysical necessity
In “Nausea” (“La Nausée”), a novel in the form of a fictional diary, Sartre makes the main character, the diarist, Roquentin, realize how baseless our assumptions about what is possible, what can ...
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