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TL;DR: I'm looking for thoughtwork on the philosophy behind awards and recognition, likely related to ethics and/or morality. This could be books, papers, essays, excerpts, or anything else -- I'm ...
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What did Sartre have to say about the unconscious? Chat-gpt is trying to convince me that Sartre explicitly calls it a "theory of excuses" and "a device of bad faith", but both ...
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How badly did the discovery of DNA and genetics undermine Sartre’s idea of existence preceding essence?
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I've been thinking about this for a while. Throughout history, many philosophers have spoken about human nature as something fixed, as if there are limits we simply cannot cross. But then I come ...
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There is no question that reading "classical" philosophers like Plato, Descartes, Kant will always provide readers significant insights since they constitute the very foundations of Western ...
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Is there any reasons for someone thinking essence would precede existence? I agree with Satre's original statement where its the other way around, and I've been wondering how someone would arrive at ...
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Why did Sartre regret his essay Existentialism is a Humanism? Background and Evidence Existentialism is a Humanism is an essay published by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1946. In an introduction by Mary Warnock ...
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The feeling of nausea that Roquentin, the main character of Sartre’s novel, famously experienced in a public garden while obsessively watching a chestnut tree, accounts for his sensitivity to the ...
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Source what is required of an authentic choice is that it involve a proper coordination of transcendence and facticity, and thus that it avoid the pitfalls of an uncoordinated expression of the ...
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I have been reading Aristotle's NE and a bit of Existentialism is a Humanism and was wondering how Sartre (or another existentialist) might defend his position that humans do not have some function ...
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I take the In-itself and For-itself (in reading Being and Nothingness) to be entirely distinct concepts, much like a priori and a posteriori concepts. However, with the later, I'm given to understand ...
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what is required of an authentic choice is that it involve a proper coordination of transcendence and facticity, and thus that it avoid the pitfalls of an uncoordinated expression of the desire for ...
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Jean- Paul Sartre once said about Camus: "I would call his pessimism 'solar' if you remember how much black there is in the sun."
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I am reading the Routledge Critical Thinkers series on Jacques Lacan, and I have come across this passage about Jean-Paul Sartre: In an early work entitled Transcendence of the Ego (1934) Sartre ...
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A head-up: I am from an analytic background, and I have only read continental philosophy via second sources. I am confused about what 'nothingness' mean in Sartre's ⟪Being and Nothingness⟫. Some ...
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