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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Abbie, Emily, Amber & Shelby . JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. HISTORY ABOUT SARTRE. Born in Paris in 1905- Died on April 15 th , 1980 Studied at Superieure from 1924 to 1939 Professor of philosophy at Le Havre in 1931 Philosophical writer Best known philosopher of the twentieth century

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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

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  1. Abbie, Emily, Amber & Shelby  JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

  2. HISTORY ABOUT SARTRE • Born in Paris in 1905- Died on April 15th, 1980 • Studied at Superieure from 1924 to 1939 • Professor of philosophy at Le Havre in 1931 • Philosophical writer • Best known philosopher of the twentieth century • has theoretical writings, as well as novels and plays that constitute one of the main inspirational sources of modern literature

  3. HISTORY • Following a period of conscripted military service he taught philosophy at various lycées (A secondary school in France that is funded by the government) from 1931. • These teaching duties were interrupted in 1933 by his spending a year in Berlin studying an emergent philosophy – phenomenology: “the properties and essence" of things. • Sartre's novel La Nausée (Nausea) was published in 1938.

  4. IMPORTANT QUOTE • “Those who hide their complete freedom from themselves out of a spirit of seriousness or by means of deterministic excuses, I shall call cowards; those who try to show that their existence was necessary, when it is the very contingency of man’s appearance on earth, I shall call stinkers” (October 1945 public lecture)

  5. KEY IDEAS! • Key Ideas • I. Existence precedes essence—weare thrown into the world into situations not of our making; so we have to remake them according to the existential deed that affirms our humanity. • II. Man is a useless passion—man’s desires are ever voiding themselves in a desperate search to structure meaning into the world. • III. Man exercises a will to be God—man wills to be a first cause of his contingency to ground it in his deeds. This statement exhibits a personal sovereignty in defiance of a resistant world. • IV. "Hell is other people" (from the novel No Exit). He believed that the master/slave relationship defined the human condition in every dimension.

  6. HIS MAIN IDEA! • The main idea of Jean-Paul Sartre is that we are, as humans, "condemned to be free.“ • Theory states: there is no creator • Lives are formed using the example of the paper-cutter • Sartre says that if one considered a paper-cutter, one would assume that the creator would have had a plan for it: an essence.

  7. Existentialism • He is commonly considered the father of Existentialist philosophy • Existentialism is a catch-all term for those philosophers who consider the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem and who share the view that this problem is best addressed through ontology (the nature of existence or being as such). • Existentialism is the major introduction to philosophy for the general public

  8. GAME TIME!

  9. WHERE WAS SARTRE BORN? • A. Madrid • B. Paris • C. Africa • D. America B

  10. LIVES ARE FORMED USING THE EXAMPLE OF? • A. Discipline • B. Paper- Eater • C. Paper- Cutter • D. Paper- Trim C

  11. EXISTENCE PRECEEDS WHAT? • A. Essence • B. Existence • C. Manipulation • D. Being A

  12. SARTRE STATES THAT HUMANS ARE CONDEMNED TO BE FREE • True • False TRUE

  13. HE IS COMMONLY CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF… • A. Philosophy • B. Consciousness • C. Existentialism philosophy • D. Naturism C

  14. HE BELIEVES THAT MAN IS A USEFUL PASSION • True • False FALSE, He believes that man is a useless passion

  15. BIG QUESTION! • What is the name of Sartre’s novel???? La Nausée

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