Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism and Human Emotions

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In this provocative philosophical analysis, Sartre refutes the idea that existentialism drains meaning from human life, by claiming that the philosophy instead gives man total freedom to achieve his own significance Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions is a stirring defense of existentialist thought, which argues that “existence precedes essence.” While attacks on existentialism claim that the philosophy leads to a kind of nihilistic gloom, Sartre contends that instead existentialism is the only path toward giving man meaning. Sartre ultimately argues that by the very absence of “a priori meaning,” an individual can discover and shape his or her own significance and place in the world.   Sartre turns the typical nihilistic definition of existentialism on its head in this optimistic take on his best-known theory.
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    I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing
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    In this war which I have chosen I choose myself from day to day, and I make it mine by making myself. If it is going to be four empty years, then it is I who bear the responsibility for this.
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    Descartes said, “Conquer yourself rather than the world,

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