Essay On Jean Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was an author, playwright, teacher, political activist and brilliant twentieth century philosopher. His ideas first became wide spread in the 1960’s, when he became one of the first philosophers to official adopt the official title of existentialism. His philosophy still carries merit today and humanity as a whole can benefit from his wisdom on human existence.
To understand Sartre we must first know a little about his biography. Sartre was born June 21, 1905 in Paris, France. His father was a naval officer that died when he was just fifteen months old and he subsequently raised by his mother and his grandparents. His grandfather was responsible for his education, and introduced him to classical literature at a very young age leading him to be very gifted as a boy. He had a strabismus from a childhood disease that caused one eye to be blind and look outward, and he was very short¬¬, reaching only 5’2” as an …show more content…
Anything that we attempt to do may be thwarted by others. To act with “despair,” is to act without hope. Of course we should try to do what we can, but we shouldn’t be surprised when things don’t work out the way we want it to, and since we don’t have total control of what happens to us, we should at least exert control over how we feel and how we respond. Controlling how we feel is just as important as our actions. Don’t complain about things not going your way—just do your best. People are defined by what they did, not what they would have done had the circumstances been different. To act with “despair” is act without false hope, to rely only on what you can control, and to accept the things that you cannot. Sartre had a very stoic