SECTION IV: What is it Worth?
Reading 5: Sartre's existentialist writings
The reading from Jean-Paul Sartre completes our course on philosophy. It is appropriate now to revisit the primary question of the course: What is Philosophy? What have you learned about this form of human behavior? What is philosophy, and what is it to philosophize? Keep this question in mind, as you consider Sartre's remarks on the nature of human being and value.
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"I am the being which is in such a way that in its being its being is in question." |
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980
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Sartre in Cuba with fellow philosopher and companion, Simone de Beauvoir and Che Guevara, communist revolutionary, 1960
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For a cartoon lampooning the French existenstialist sensibility, see here: |
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Go back to Kierkegaard. |
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