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| | Existentialism and Humanism |
 | | Existentialism is not atheist in the sense that it would exhaust itself in demonstrations of the non-existence of God. | | | That kind of humanism is absurd, for only the dog or the horse would be in a position to pronounce a general judgment upon man and declare that he is magnificent, which they have never been such fools as to do--at least, not as far as I know. | | | This relation of transcendence as constitutive of man (not in the sense that God is transcendent, but in the sense of self-surpassing) with subjectivity (in such a sense that man is not shut up in himself but forever present in a human universe)--it is this that we call existential humanism. |
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| | Existentialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Existentialism was inspired by the works of Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, and Heidegger. | | | It became popular in the mid-20th century through the works of the French writer-philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir whose version of existentialism are set out in a popular form in Sartre's 1946 L'Existentialisme est un humanisme, translated as Existentialism is a Humanism. | | | Pascal argued that without a God, life would be meaningless and miserable. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Existentialism and Humanism: Books |
| | Basically, in conclusion to his reference to atheistic existentialism, Sartre adds that the first principle of existentialism is that man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. | | | All in all, he makes out quite a solid and intelligible defence of existentialism as he explains that the first effect of existentialism is to put every man in possession of himself with the entire responsibility of his existence being placed on his shoulders. | | | Doubtless this first principle of existentialism gave rise to a reproach against the subjectivity of existentialism. |
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| | Existentialism |
| | The themes of existentialism are themes that the God of the Bible addresses in His Word. | | | This story provides a descriptive or phenomenological account of a man's growing realization of the absurdity of human life in itself, and of his awakening to the fact that if a man’s life is to have any meaning or purpose, the individual himself must confer that meaning upon it. | | | A sense of the absurd, the absurdity of life and of man himself, permeates Sartre's early existentialism. |
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| | Existentialism is a Humanism |
| | Christian existentialism stumbles upon the former (how can we have a free individual Self if God envisions it?), naturalism upon the latter (how can we escape some God if there is a predetermined essence of man?). | | | Man is not a God to prescribe his self-conception to all individuals as a law and pre-determined concept. | | | By over-emphasizing the sordid and the "dark side" of human nature existentialism propounds human degradation the way "naturalism" used to expose the worst human traits in the nineteenth century. |
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| | Philosophy- Squashed Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism - Condensed Abridged |
| | The absurd type of humanism is to glory in "Man the magnificent" ascribing the value of man to the deeds of the most distinguished men. | | | Atheist existentialism (of which I am a representative) declares that there is only one being whose existence comes before its essence - that being is man (or, as Heidegger has it, human reality). | | | There is no human nature, because there is no God to have a conception of it. |
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| | Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism" |
| | Therefore, human beings are created first, their nature created second, and not by God, but by personal choices and actions. | | | Sartre, in "Existentialism is a Humanism," answers the charges of quietism and subjectivism, and also attempts to answer the question: If God does not exist, how are there any rules of how to act? | | | In this vein, there is no inherent human nature to look to as an explanation for actions. |
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| | Jean-Paul Sartre [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | After a brief summary of Sartre's life, we shall look at the main themes characterizing Sartre's early philosophical works. | | | Our power to negate is thus the clue which reveals our nature as free. | | | This picture is in particular illustrated in Being and Nothingness by an account of the projects of love, sadism and masochism, and in other works, by biographical accounts of the lives of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Jean Genet. |
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| | Existential Problems |
| | To be sure, Kierkegaard and Sartre are not any longer our contemporaries and Existentialism as a philosophical movement has vanished from the philosophical scene almost a half a century ago. | | | The historical merits and relevance of Existentialism recognized, why are we reverting to the philosophers of the two past centuries in an effort to explain our present existence? | | | The heydays of its strong and direct impact on general culture, literature and popular life-style are gone, but its insights regarding the nature of human subjectivity are in many respects still valid. |
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| | Philosophical Background to Sartre's "Existentialism Is a Humanism" |
| | People influenced by Descartes' mechanistic picture of nature hold that the world is a system of deterministic natural laws. | | | Plato and Aristotle regarded contemplation (theoria) as the highest type of human activity, higher than good moral action (praxis) and good making (poiesis). | | | (A well-known example of this is the French Enlightenment philosopher and materialist Baron D'Holbach.) Sartre denies that human beings are subject to deterministic laws (though he seems to accept that the rest of the universe is). |
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| | Existentialism and Humanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The essay has been criticized by some for giving only a superficial overview of the themes of existentialism, and Sartre himself has called its undeveloped morality an "error". | | | In his text, Sartre says that the key defining point of Existentialism is that the existence of a person comes chronologically before his or her essence. | | | Existentialism is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme) is a 1946 philosophical work by Jean-Paul Sartre. |
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| | Existentialism |
| | This site offers the basics of existentialism, pros and cons of existentialism, phenomenology and its relation to existentialism, existentialism through selected quotations, and probes over twenty minds of existentialism from literature, philosophy, psychology and poetry. | | | Lectures on Heidegger's Being and Time - These lectures, developed and delivered over several courses at different schools, represent an attempt to guide the reader through the work in a thoughtful and careful manner. | | | The Realm of Existentialism - The Realm of Existentialism features an indepth look at the attributes of the existentialist school of thought. |
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| | Sartre |
| | Recognizing a connection between the principles of existentialism and the more practical concerns of social and political struggle, Sartre wrote not only philosophical treatises but also novels, stories, plays, and political pamphlets. | | | Katharena Eiermann's discussion of Sartre at The Realm of Existentialism. | | | Captured by the Nazis while serving as an Army meteorologist, Sartre was a prisoner of war for one year before returning to his teaching position, where he participated actively in the French resistance to German occupation until the liberation. |
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| | Humanism and Existentialism |
| | Two ethnic cliques may demonize each other and begin slaughtering each other. | | | If you're inclined to be a believer, you'll see proofs of a God who runs the universe and decrees rules for human behavior--and if you're oriented to be a skeptic, you won't. | | | Lacking any sense of the divine, I focused on the branches of philosophy that try to make life better for people: humanism, pragmatism, and the like. |
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| | ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR SARTRE’S EXISTENTIALISM AND HUMANISM |
| | A version of the translation of Existentialism and Humanism by Philip Mairet - as published by Methuen, the set edition for this course - is also available on-line at | | | A brief biography of Sartre by Andy Blunden, with useful links to translations of his writings, and to biographies of related thinkers, can be found at | | | Jon Webber’s article, ‘Did Sartre take himself too seriously?’, provides an entertaining analysis of Sartre& views in Existentialism and Humanism, though you might not agree with Webber’s conclusion in defence of Sartre. |
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| | Existential Primer: Home Page |
| | Existentialism attempts to describe our desire to make rational decisions despite existing in an irrational universe. | | | This is not to claim that phenomenology and existentialism are not concerned with groups and social philosophy, but there is a clear belief that the individual can define the self. | | | Continental movements are sometimes referred to as experiential because they are concerned with the experiences of the individual. |
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| | Gallileus - Existentialism and Humanism: Jean-Paul Sartre |
| | This text provides an accessible, student-centred guide to both the set text 'Existentialism and Humanism' and to the broader existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. | | | The book features a biographical introduction setting Sartre in his historical context; a section by section guide to 'Existentialism and Humanism' including key quotes; tasks and activities to help you understand and evaluate Sartre's philosophy; and a critical analysis of the philosophical implications of Sartre's ideas. | | | It also offers summaries of key points needed for exam questions about Sartre and existentialism plus an extensive glossary of key words and ideas This title is part of the Philosophy in focus series which provides clear and focused coverage of AS and A2 Philosophy |
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| | Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre |
| | This lecture was delivered by Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris in 1945; it is a defence of Existentialism as a doctrine true to Humanism, as opposed to a purely nihilistic creed. | | | "...a polemical work, full of Sartre's acute awareness of contemporary problems...He provides a clear and lively explanation of the main concepts of his existentialism avoiding almost completely technicalities and philosophical jargon. | | | It also includes objections made to the original lecture at the club Maintenant which shows how well Sartre could hold his own against criticism. |
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