Candide

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 SARTRE’S LIFE AND WORK 4 METAPHYSICS: CONCIOUSNESS AND OBJECTIVES, ATHEISM 5 THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE: EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE, NEGATION AND FREEDOM 6 DIAGNOSIS: ANGUISH AND BAD FAITH, CONFLICT WITH OTHERS 7 PRESCRIPTION: REFLECTIVE CHOICE 7 THE “FIRST ETHICS”: AUTHENTICITY AND FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE 8 THE “SECOND ETHICS”: SOCIETY AND HUMAN NEEDS 8 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCE LIST 10 INTRODUCTION This assignment focuses on Jean-Paul Sartre who was a philosopher…

Satire is a genre in literature while sometimes could be graphic and performing arts. Usually, satire is a comical piece of writing which authors would use humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule makes fun of an individual or a society to expose its stupidity and shortcomings in an indirect way. And its essential purpose is to put out constructive social criticism which uses wit as a weapon to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. Moreover, writers expect that whom he…

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