It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture was to expound his philosophy as a form of “existentialism,” a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make (...) it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity. The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre’s doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence—his self, his being—through the choices he freely makes. Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind. This book presents a new English translation of Sartre’s 1945 lecture and his analysis of Camus’s _The Stranger_, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre’s introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture. (shrink)

In Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, Sartre highlights how emotions can transform our perspective on the world in ways that might make our situations more bearable when we cannot see an easy or happy way out. The point of this chapter is to spell out and discuss Sartre’s theory of emotion as presented in the Sketch with two aims in mind. The first is to show that although emotions have the power to transform our perspectives on (...) the world in ways described by Sartre, Sartre is mistaken to think emotions comprise the cognitive transformations in question. The second aim is to show why on one plausible way of thinking about the relationship holding between emotions and the cognitive transformations they help to bring about, emotions turn out to be the very sort of things that Sartre claims at the outset they are not, namely types of bodily feelings or sensations, a view of emotion that can be accredited to William James. (shrink)

Using Sartre is an introduction to the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre which promotes Sartrean views but adopts a consistently analytical approach to him. Concentrating on his early philosophy, up to and including Sartre's masterwork Being and Nothingness, Gregory McCulloch demonstrates how much analytical philosophers miss when they neglect Sartre and the continental tradition in philosophy. In the classic spirit of analytical philosophy, Using Sartre is a clear and pithy exposition of Sartre's early work. Written (...) specifically for beginners and non-specialists, the book is sure to spark new interest in Sartre and the existentialists while also making a significant contribution to the analytical philosophy of mind. It indicates how the analytical and continental approaches to philosophy may be brought into closer relation to one another. (shrink)

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jean-Paul Sartre is a man who lived half his life in the limelight of extreme notoriety. An intellectual who already in 1945 had to protest against attempts aimed at institutionalizing the writer, turning his works into 'national goods', exclaiming: 'it is not pleasant to be treated in one's lifetime as a public monument'. What must be equally unpleasant is to be constantly subjected to abuse. And the fact is that no writer in his lifetime has been the target of (...) so many attacks, from the most varied and rather powerful quarters, as Jean-Paul Sartre. What are the reasons? How should we approach the work of this man, our contemporary? (shrink)

Le probleme de la connaissance est essentiel a une juste comprehension de la pensee de Sartre. Conscience et liberte se donnant pour leur propre fondement, l'alternative a l'ethique est d'aborder la question de l'homme en tentant de concilier la subjectivite avec la certitude et la verite de la connaissance. Ni la science ni le Cogito cartesien ne permettent d'acceder a une connaissance veritable: la conscience est existence concrete et pre-reflexive. Il ressort de l'ontologie une dualite de la connaissance que (...) resout une dialectique de la conscience; il y a, dans la connaissance, une necessite incontournable de recourir a la rationalite, alors que la realite qu'elle vise est irreductible a la rationalite. La theorie de la conscience fonde epistemologiquement cette dialectique et assure la verite et l'intelligibilite de l'homme et de l'histoire: la connaissance est situee. Existence et savoir ne font qu'un; la verite est l'acte de la liberte. (shrink)

In The Imaginary Sartre offers a systematic, insightful and heterodox account of imagining in many forms. Beginning with four ‘characteristics’ he takes to capture the phenomenology of imagining, he draws on considerations both philosophical and psychological to describe the deeper nature of the state that has those features. The result is a view that remains the most potent challenge to the Humean orthodoxy that to this day dominates both philosophical and psychological thinking on the topic.

Twenty-five years after his death, critics and academics, film-makers and journalists continue to argue over Sartre's legacy. But certain interpretations have congealed around his iconic text _Nausea_, tending to confine it within the framework provided by the later philosophical work, _Being and Nothingness_. This volume opens up the text to a range of new approaches within the fields of English and Comparative Literature, as well as Philosophy and French Studies, under the headings: ‘Text’, ‘Context’, and ‘Intertext’: the textual strategies (...) at work within the novel; the literary, cultural and philosophical context of its production; and the intertextual web within which it is situated. This volume will interest a wide public of teachers, students and all those who want to reconsider Sartre’s legacy in the twenty–first century. (shrink)

Sartre's moral thinking progressed from an abstract, idealistic ethics of authenticity to a more concrete, realistic, and materialistic morality. Much of Sartre's important unpublished work on ethics - relevant to both his 'first' and his 'second' ethics - has become available to scholars only in the years since his death. Only now has it become possible to give a complete presentation of both the first and the second ethics and to accurately identify their relationship. Sartre's Two Ethics (...) also presents Professor Anderson's original criticisms of Sartre's two ethics, and concludes that the second is a significant advance over the first. (shrink)

Introduction: to historicize or not to historicize -- From time to history -- The historical search for the unhistorical -- Human history and the human condition -- History and revolution -- History and a note on ethics.

This introduction traces the philosophical achievements of a thinker sonfluential that his death in 1980 brought 50,000 people on to the streets ofaris. The account of Jean-Paul Sartre - writer, journalist and intellectualornerstone of the 20th century - stretches from his early existential phaseo his later Marxist beliefs. With coverage of such major contemporary issuess human liberty, sociobiology, the ethics of work, and the influence ofenetics on ideas of individual freedom, Neil Levy uses a range of originalaterial not only (...) to introduce Sartre and his work, but also to highlight hisontinuing relevance to today's moral and scientific climate. At the heart ofhis study is a focus on the ethical dimension of Jean-Paul Sartre'shilosophical thought: a focus which challenges us to consider more closelyhe shape of our lives, and the manner in which human beings should treat onenother. (shrink)

<I>Aesthetics in Sartre and Camus examines the ideas on aesthetics expressed in the oeuvres of the two French authors. The dispute that arose following the publication of Camus' <I>L'homme revolte and Sartre's criticism of Camus' book culminated in the break up of their friendship in 1952, thereby underlining the differences in the authors' thinking. But by observing the function and significance of art and freedom in their works, fundamental correspondences and areas of agreement are revealed in Sartre's (...) and Camus' writings and are analysed in the present study.". (shrink)

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Sartres Sozialphilosophie" verfügbar.

The Western philosophic tradition has tended to tie the question of action to that of freedom, with the relationship structured around the free will/determinism opposition. In contrast, I show that in Being and Nothingness, Sartre offers a stringent and radical critique of these approaches. I briefly outline the conceptual parameters of Sartre’s early ontology, before showing that he rejects the free will tradition because of its underlying conception of freedom and insistence that action is reflective and will-based. According (...) to Sartre, consciousness is not a sum of parts, with one aspect (will) guiding the rest. Consciousness is a differentiated whole, divided between reflective and pre-reflective levels. Will is tied to the reflective level of consciousness and so cannot be said to be foundational given that reflectivity depends upon pre-reflectivity. Instead, it is an expressive effect of consciousness’s spontaneous, pre-reflective, projection of itself towards a particular end and value. (shrink)

Jean-Paul Sartre claims in his 1945 lecture ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’ that there are two kinds of existentialism: that of Christians like Karl Jaspers, and atheistic like Martin Heidegger. Sartre's ‘spiritual master’ Heidegger had no problem with Sartre defining him as an atheist, but he had serious problems with Sartre's concept of humanism and existentialism. Heidegger claims that the essence of humanism lies in the essence of the human being. After the Enlightenment, the Western concept of (...) man has been presented in education in the form of Kantian humanistic essentialism. At least in the Finnish educational system, Kantian humanism is almost an official ideological background of all national curriculums. Is such a kind of essentialism and metaphysics plausible in our modern or postmodern times? We examine the Sartre-Heidegger controversy on humanism and the concept of man in education using Freire's humanism and Gelassenheit education as exemplars. (shrink)

This book is a comprehensive study of the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. As well as examining the drama and the fiction, the book analyses the evolution of his philosophy, explores his concern with ethics, psychoanalysis, literary theory, biography and autobiography and includes a lengthy section on the still much-neglected study of Flaubert, L'Idiot de la famille. One important aim of the book is to rebut the charges made by many theorists and philosophers by revealing that Sartre is in (...) fact a major source for concepts such as the decentred subject and detotalised truth and for the revolt against individualistic humanism. Dr Howells also takes into account much posthumously published material, in particular the Chaiers pour une morale, but also the Lettres au Castor and the Cranets de la drole de guerre. The work is a substantial contribution to Sartre studies, but has been written with the non-specialist in mind; to that end all quotations are translated into English and gathered in an appendix. (shrink)

This article will offer an alternative understanding of managerial decision-making drawing from Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason rather than simply Being and Nothingness. I will begin with a brief explanation of Sartre’s account of freedom in Being and Nothingness. I will then show in the second section how Andrew West uses Sartre’s conception of radical freedom from Being and Nothingness for a managerial decision-making model. In the third section, I will explore a more robust account of freedom (...) from Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason. I will attempt to show that freedom is not simply a matter of choosing (or not choosing) to perform an action, but entails external constraints—including other people. Finally, I will provide the implications of this account of freedom for managerial decision-making. I will show that it’s unreasonable to place full responsibility and/or blame on managers given their constraints. This does not absolve them from responsibility, but better accounts for the way in which we ought to hold them responsible. (shrink)

Sartre and the Media is the first book to offer a systematic account of Sartre's involvement in press publications and radio and television broadcasting in postwar France. Sartre's awareness of the growing power of the media to shape and influence public opinion was the motivating force underlying his interventions in the press from Combat and Le Figaro in 1944-45 to La Cause du Peuple, J'Accuse and Liberation in 1970-74, and in the French state-controlled radio and television network (...) from the 'Tribune des Temps Modernes' radio series of 1947 to the aborted 'Antenne 2' television history series of 1974-75. Focused principally on the nature of relations between intellectuals and the media, this book will appeal to those interested in the issues of freedom of expression and censorship in contemporary France. (shrink)

When humanism is thought, especially within the borders of 20th century philosophy, one of the things that first comes to mind is the statements which have occurred in 1950s between Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, can be named as Heidegger-Sartre Controversy on Humanism and mainly based on two texts. Sartre, in one of his speeches, builds an essential connection between humanism and existentialism and in here he defines Heidegger as an existentialist like himself. In return, Heidegger, probably (...) as a criticism to Sartre's attribution to him, told about his thoughts on humanism within the expanded version of one of his earlier letters. By this controversy the context and content humanism had been expanded, the understanding of humanism is deepened. The aim of this article is to manifest if there are some things that the controversy between Heidegger and Sartre could contribute to the terms -as a problematic humanism has nowadays- like post-humanism, trans-humanism, meta-humanism, super-humanism, alter-humanism whose terminological meanings aren't quite well-defined. It is to investigate if there are any solutions that humanism -which is being shaped again and obtaining new contexts through these terms- could gain by this controversy against this current terminology problem. (shrink)

Sartre seeks both to overcome solipsism and clarify how the individual becomes an object—with a seemingly fixed char acter—through his account of The Look in Being and Nothingness. While his description of how The Look of the other transforms one into an object may at first appear to be confirmed by experience, the account proves to be inade quate as a refutation of solipsism and in showing exactly how one becomes an object. On the other hand, G.H. Mead has (...) a convincing approach to how the self comes into being as an object. In the first section of this paper I present and criticize Sartre's position, especially his explanation for how one can experience The Look when the other is not empirically present. The second section investigates Mead's approach to the genesis of the self as social object, and then shows how Mead's ideas can be employed to clarify inconsistencies in Sartre's account, highlighting why Sartre's description ap pears to be confirmed by experience. (shrink)

사르트르의 유아론 논박 요지를 포착하기란 까다로운 일이다. 이 글의 목적은 사르트르의 타자론을 파악하기 위한 여러 독해 방식을 검토하면서 그의 진의와 요지를 파악하는 것이다. 그래서 우선 사르트르의 요지로 오해되기 쉬운 두 가지 접근방식을 성급한 것으로 물리칠 것이다. 그 하나는 타인에 대한 지각이론에, 다른 하나는 내적 부정에 의한 타자와의 존재론적 연결 논제에 기대고 있다. 다음으로 몇몇 연구자가 제시하였던 시선에서의 수치 경험에 따른 논증을 비판적으로 검토할 것이다. 이어서 이른바 ‘부재하는 타자’ 또는 ‘수 이전적 타자’의 문제를 다루기 위해 하이데거의 존재론적 전략과의 유비가 유용할 수 (...) 있음을 보일 것이다. 끝으로 존재론적 전략을 활용함으로써 사르트르의 시선론을 어떻게 재독해해야 하는가와 관련하여 몇 가지 사항을 부언할 것이다. (shrink)

‘A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him.’ This was how Jean-Paul Sartre characterized himself at the end of his autobiographical study, Words. And Bernard-Henri Lévy shows how Sartre cannot be understood without taking into account his relations with the intellectual forebears and contemporaries, the lovers and friends, with whom he conducted a lifelong debate. His thinking was essentially a tumultuous dialogue with his whole age and himself. He (...) learned from Gide the art of freedom, and how to experiment with inherited fictional forms. He was a fellow-traveller of communism, and yet his relations with the Party were deeply ambiguous. He was fascinated by Freud but trenchantly critical of psychoanalysis. Beneath Sartre’s complex and ever-mutating political commitments, Lévy detects a polarity between anarchic individualism on the one hand, and a longing for absolute community that brought him close to totalitarianism on the other. Lévy depicts Sartre as a man who could succumb to the twentieth century’s catastrophic attraction to violence and the false messianism of its total political solutions, while also being one of the fiercest critics of its illusions and shortcomings. (shrink)

These essays focus on Sartre's influence on existential and phenomenological psychology. Subjects range from Sartre's relation with Freud and Laing, to a study of human behaviour, using as a model Roquentin from his novel, Nausea.

1. L'Être et le néant. Critique de la raison dialectique.

A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be?

This paper compares the treatment of other minds in Strawson and Sartre. Both discussions are presented here as transcendental arguments, and some striking parallels between them are brought out. However the primary significance of the alignment lies in the difference that emerges between two forms of transcendental proof, with the phenomenological treatment in Sartre promising to yield a stronger conclusion than Strawson's argument. The paper goes some way towards bringing out this difference.

Sartre's phenomenological ontology discloses that understanding consciousness and its mode of being requires an analysis of its relation with other consciousnesses. The primordial manner in which the Other relates to consciousness is through the look. Sartre claims that consciousness tends to adopt a pre-reflective fundamental project that leads it to view the Other as a threat to its pure subjective freedom. This creates a conflictual social relation in which each consciousness tries to objectify the Other to maintain its (...) subjective freedom. But Sartre also notes that consciousnesses can establish a social relation called the “we” in which each consciousness is a free subject. While certain commentators have noted that communication allows each consciousness to learn that the Other is not simply a threatening object but another subject, communication can only play this positive role if both consciousnesses have undergone a specific process called conversion. Only conversion brings consciousness to recognise, respect, and affirm the Other's practical freedom in the way necessary to create a we-relation. To support my argument, I spend significant time outlining what conversion and the social relations created post-conversion entail. (shrink)

"Popular summaries of existentialism and Sartre's ideas have ensured a wide currency for such words as 'absurdity', 'nothingness', 'engagement', 'shame', and 'anguish'. But for Sartre, each of these words embodies a precise philosophical concept which he applies and explores further in his fiction and plays. Synthesized in 'Being and Nothingness' and 'Critique of Dialectical Reason', these concepts comprise a fully articulated philosophical system which, as Arthur C. Danto argues, in its vision and scope, logical responsibility and human relevance, (...) takes its place among the greatest of philosophical achievements. This book offers a synoptic and sympathetic reconstruction of the Sartrean system and in particular Sartre's analysis of the nature of language, consciousness, knowledge, self, and values." --Descripción del editor. (shrink)

Sartre’s phenomenological view of consciousness gives primacy to the thesis that all consciousness is nonthetically aware of itself, i.e., pre-reflectively aware of itself but not as an object. Few commentators, however, have explained Sartre’s grounds for holding this thesis, despite his view that the thesis’s truth underwrites the certainty of the Cartesian cogito and thereby the method of Sartre’s own phenomenological ontology. I document three lines of support for the thesis, the most promising of which consists in (...) a proof by cases. Namely, Sartre’s texts contain the argument that the existence of nonthetic consciousness is the only satisfactory explanation of the Cartesian cogito’s certainty. The paper concludes with an examination of whether and how nonthetic consciousness can serve as a foundation for Sartre’s method of phenomenological ontology. (shrink)

This brief essay unpretentiously seeks to highlight the relevance of some of the central questions in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, thus aiming to contribute to broadening the scope of the French philosopher's ideas. Without fearing controversy, it presents the correlation between the concept of freedom and the responsibility necessarily implied. Such concepts remind us that this work is current, for it demands to assume its political and ethical unfoldings as unavoidable demands. The debate is built, then, through (...) class='Hi'>Sartre's encounters with his peers, highlighting the interlocutions and controversial divergences that mark his itinerary. Finally, the timeliness of the work seems to reside in the historical failure of the humanist project, that is, Being and Nothingness continues to be current, because we are still incapable of promoting a historical situation in which the human being is free. (shrink)

‘의식의 철학자’, ‘자유의 철학자’ 등의 칭호는 사르트르에게 익숙하다. 이런 칭호가 ‘공식적’이라고 할 수 있을 정도이다. 실제로 자발성, 자유, 운동, 변화, 실천 등과 같은 개념은 그의 사유의 중핵에 해당한다. 죽음에 의해 가로막혀 더 이상 변신하는 것이 불가능할 때까지 인간은 자신을 ‘기투’해야 한다. 이와 같은 당위적이고 실존적인 기투가 그의 주체적, 능동적 삶의 기저에 놓여 있다. 하지만 사르트르의 사유에서 ‘수동성’, ‘사로잡힘’ 개념은 끈질기게 나타난다. 의식의 자발성, 자율성, 투명성이 확보되었다고 여겨지는 존재와 무에서조차 이 두 개념은 완전히 사라지지 않는다. 그는 의식의 철학, 자유의 철학을 바탕으로 (...) 그만의 ‘인간학’을 정립해나간다. 그는 그 과정에서 그를 끊임없이 곤경에 빠뜨렸던 수동성과 사로잡힘을 극복하기 위해 노력한다. 이 글에서는 이런 노력에 주목하면서 그가 의식, 자유의 철학에 입각한 인간학의 정립에 이르는 길이 마냥 순탄하지만은 않았다는 사실을 제시하는 한편, 수동성, 사로잡힘의 포로가 된 그의 또 다른 모습을 확인함으로써 그의 철학의 폭과 깊이를 더 잘 가늠해보는 기회를 갖고자 한다. (shrink)

이 글의 목적은 사르트르의 최초의 철학적 저서인 『자아의 초월성』의 위상을 정확하게 밝혀보고자 하는 것이다. 흔히 이 저서는 사르트르가 후설의 현상학적 방법론을 통해 자신의 사유를 그려 보인 최초의 밑그림이자 사르트르 철학의 전모가 이미 그려져 있는 청사진으로 간주된다. 그러나 엄밀하게 말하자면 『자아의 초월성』은 후설의 현상학을 단순히 수용한 결과물이 아닐뿐더러, 사르트르의 대표작인 『존재와 무』 또한 『자아의 초월성』의 논의들을 단순히 반복하거나 그것을 일관적으로 발전시킨 것이 아니다. 본 논문은 『자아의 초월성』이 가지는 위상을 정확히 파악하기 위해 다음 두 가지 문제에 관하여 논의할 것이다. 첫째로는 이 저작을 (...) 기점으로 사르트르가 후설의 현상학으로부터 어떻게 벗어나고 있는가 하는 문제이며, 둘째로는 이후의 저작인 『존재와 무』에서 사르트르가이 『자아의 초월성』에서 스스로 제시한 결론들을 어떻게 극복하고 있는가 하는 문제이다. 그리고 이와 같은 두 측면의 검토는 사실 널리 알려진 하나의 철학적 문제와 연관되어 있다. 그것은 ‘유아론의 문제’, 바꾸어 말하자면 ‘타자의 문제’이다. 『자아의 초월성』에서 사르트르는 유아론의 문제에 관한 자신의 독창적인 답변을 마련하고 있다. 따라서 우리는 이 저작에서 제시되는 유아론에 대한 그의 답변을 통해 사르트르가 어떻게 후설로부터 벗어나 자신의 독자적인 사유로 나아가고 있는가를 확인할 수 있다. 이와 더불어 이후의 저작인 『존재와 무』에서 사르트르는 스스로 『자아의 초월성』에서 주장한 유아론 극복이 불충분한 것이었음을 자인하고 유아론의 문제에 관한 새로운 해결 방식을 제시하고 있다. 그러므로 우리는 유아론의 문제에 초점을 맞춤으로써 후설의 현상학에 관한 사르트르의 비판은 물론, 『자아의 초월성』으로부터 그의 주저인 『존재와 무』로 이르는 도정에서 사르트르의 사유가 어떻게 변화하고 있는가를 포착할 수 있다. (shrink)

본 논문은 사르트르의 실존주의 철학에서 윤리의 가능성을 타진하고자 한다. 사르트르가 『존재와 무』의 결론에서 자신의 차후 과제로 윤리학을 계획했음에도 불구하고 이를 완수하지 못했다는 것은 주지의 사실이며, 이는 실존주의에 대한 오해와 맞물려 사르트르에게 윤리학이란 없거나 혹은 실패한 것이라는 바판으로까지 이어져 왔다. 이 논문은 바로 이러한 ‘사르트르의 실존주의 철학이 윤리학의 가능성을 가지는가’라는 문제에 대해 해명함을 목적으로 한다. 『도덕을 위한 노트』에서 사르트르가 고안했던 윤리학, 그리고 그것의 구체적이며 실천적인 모습을 담고 있는 『문학이란 무엇인가』를 통해 우리는 사르트르에게 있어서 윤리의 가능성이란 무엇보다도 ‘자아’로부터 벗어날 수 있는 방법을 (...) 찾는 것에 있음을 확인할 수 있다. 그에게 있어서 윤리적 문제를 해결하기 위하여 관건이 되는 것은 ‘자기기만’으로부터 벗어나는 것이며, 모든 종류의 자기기만은 끈질긴 환영과 같이 나를 사로잡는 ‘자아’로부터 비롯된다는 점을 염두에 둘 때, 사르트르 철학의 중심에 결국 윤리에 대한 관심이 놓여 있었음을 부정하기란 어려운 일일 것이다. 나아가 ‘사르트르와 윤리의 문제’는 주체를 소거한 채 윤리에 답하고자 골몰하는 현대의 사상적 지형으로부터 탈출구를 발견하기 위한 견지에서 의의를 가진다. 사르트르의 실존주의가 모든 종류의 결정론에 대항하여 책임을 복권시키는 것을 과제로 삼기에, 구조주의적 사유가 한계에 다다른 지점에서 우리는 사르트르의 철학과 다시 대면할 수밖에 없다. (shrink)

윤리학의 중대한 두 물음은 어떻게 살아야 하는가와 어째서 이기주의를 벗어나는 도덕적 규범을 준수해야 하는가이다. 본고는 사르트르와 칸트의 철학에 의거하여 본래성의 윤리학의 견지에서 두 물음에 대한 답변을 모색한다. 두 물음에 함께 답할 수 있으려면, 우선 첫째 물음, 어떻게 살아야 하는가라는 물음을 다루어야만 한다. 이에 대하여 사르트르는 실존의 본래성이라는 답변을 준다. 이 답변은 인간의 삶의 방식 자체에 대한 특정한 지침을 준다. 사르트르의 실존 윤리학에 의거하는 이 답변에서 출발하여 이제 둘째 물음, 도덕성 정당화의 문제를 칸트의 이성 윤리학에 의거하여 다룰 수 있다. 본래적 실존은 (...) 스스로를 존엄한 존재로서 이해하기 때문에 이성의 견지에서도 순수한, 본래적인 자기이기를, 즉 존엄한 인격이기를 선택함으로써 도덕 법칙에 스스로를 구속한다. (shrink)

Sartre and Nizan, politique of words The aim of this article is to discuss and compare the main points of Nizan’s and Sartre’s views of committed literature. Discarding the claim to be objective and neutral, Nizan states that to abstain is to make a choice. Therefore, he critiques the intellectuals to be guilty of an abdication of responsibility. In his writings Nizan posed some questions, which became crucial for the postwar debates on the engagement of the intellectual. These (...) questions constitute a central aspect of Sartre’s writings after World War II, where Sartre criticizes writers who had not taken a stance against oppression and delineates the axes of a theory of committed literature. As a result of the comparative analysis between the two authors, it is shown that Sartre articulates an important point that Nizan have missed, namely that there is a praxis, which is specific to literature and that we should part from it in order to understand commitment. Thus, at the difference of Nizan, Sartre points out that the liberating dimension of literary criticism should not be too quickly confused with armed criticism. (shrink)

Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early, anti-humanist philosophy is indebted to the Christian doctrine of original sin. On the standard reading, Sartre's most fundamental and attractive idea is freedom: he wished to demonstrate the existence of human freedom, and did so by connecting consciousness with nothingness. Focusing on Being and Nothingness, Kate Kirkpatrick demonstrates that Sartre's concept of nothingness (le néant) has a Christian genealogy which has been overlooked in philosophical (...) and theological discussions of his work. Previous scholars have noted the resemblance between Sartre's and Augustine's ontologies: to name but one shared theme, both thinkers describe the human as the being through which nothingness enters the world. However, there has been no previous in-depth examination of this 'resemblance'. Using historical, exegetical, and conceptual methods, Kirkpatrick demonstrates that Sartre's intellectual formation prior to his discovery of phenomenology included theological elements-especially concerning the compatibility of freedom with sin and grace. -/- After outlining the French Augustinianisms by which Sartre's account of the human as 'between being and nothingness' was informed, Kirkpatrick offers a close reading of Being and Nothingness which shows that the psychological, epistemological, and ethical consequences of Sartre's le néant closely resemble the consequences of its theological predecessor; and that his account of freedom can be read as an anti-theodicy. Sartre on Sin illustrates that Sartre' s insights are valuable resources for contemporary hamartiology. (shrink)

This essay utilizes the work of the comedy group, Monty Python, as a means of introducing basic concepts in Existentialism, especially as it pertains to the writings of Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus.