Sartre's Impact On American Philosophy

Sartre Throughout the twentieth century Sartre made an impact on philosophy with his take of existentialism. Throughout his career he brought about points on the absurdity of reality extending to freedom each person in existence. Many of his philosophies were introduced through novels, “Nausea” being the most notorious of them all. Today, I’m going to delve into one of his major points. In order to crack this philosophical egg, I’m going to reiterate some of Sartre’s other ideas that tie into the one I chose. The first I’m bring to the table is Sartre’s view of the ego. He believed that we created our reality individually. This brought about the idea of nothingness and how it helped define ourselves. For example, the nothingness between a past rendition of ourselves and a future soon to be us. To Sartre, “myself is not a stable, solid entity that last thought time; rather, it is a creation that I must make and remake from moment to moment.” (page 317) In other words we create ourselves in the same way that we create our worlds. This idea essentially ties into freedom.
We are free to interpret how situation effect our worlds because that’s where our freedom stems. Finally, the picture I chose was the rock in front of the naked guy on page 319. Freedom is impossible …show more content…
If you ask anyone the question of what the meaning of life is, you will find an assortment of answers from person to person, and that is proof on how we create our own worlds. The boulder and the freedom to interpret the situation is also something I have always lived my life like. We make choices that lead us in certain paths, some good and some bad. Take a criminal for example, I would feel no sympathy for them for the simple fact that they grew up in a rough neighborhood. They had the option to grow from that situation they were handed and they chose the wrong path, so I wouldn’t feel bad for