Jean-Paul Sartre

told because we would be confident in where we stand, as philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre talks in “The Age of Reasoning:” “The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.” Our responsibility is to do as we think is ideal for us; in other words, we are responsible for showing free will to the world. Philosopher Sartre is recognized for emphasizing the idea of freedom, yet freedom can be…

The existentialist theory emphasizes choice and free will of a person and the individual will determine their own outcomes based on choice. Jean-Paul Sartre was a leading philosopher of existentialism and believed that there are no blueprints to one’s individual life. There is no purpose rather than to find their own purpose and build upon it. We are a product of our choices and we are who we choose to be. We determine our fate which determines our freedom. The burden we face however is…

give meaning to their life. Existentialists believe people are free to do whatever they please as long as they take responsibility of their consequences because they think it is pointless to fight for something that can not be avoided. “According to Sartre...existence precedes essence” “It means in effect that man has no given character which determines his actions, but that he is free”(Copleston). The freedom that Phil had, allowed for him to shape his life and give it meaning. When the film…

Evolution of Self In the movie, Gattaca, the predominate society believes in behaviorism. Which is the theory that there is no self only the body, or more importantly they view the self as a display of each individuals’ genetic makeup. But this idea is not true, the movie actually implies the self does not arise from our genes, the self is a choice. Sartre’s transcendence is that we, as individuals, choose what to make from the facts of our lives. Even Vincent is taken in by the idea of…

Anais, Alonso Module #3 PHI2010 1 Compare and contrast various views of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest religions. It predates written records and its origins are lost in the past. The term Hinduism refers to the collection of faiths that are believed to have originated in India, but other scholars believe that was brought to India a long ago by nomadic people. It is a polytheistic system with various gods and goddesses as well as lesser deities.…

in the presence of life’s toughest questions. Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” written circa 380 B.C.E. provides an early insight into the meanings of life for different individuals’ lives using existential principles much later defined by Jean-Paul Sartre. Over two millennia after Plato’s lifetime, Robert Frost’s “Design” published in 1936 takes the simplicity of flowing poetry also to an existential level. The philosophy of existentialism brings awareness of self to human beings which leads…

The idea of existentialism is believed to have been founded by a Danish philosopher named Søren Kierkegaard, who lived from 1813 to 1855. Although Kierkegaard was a religious man, existentialism became a more atheistic worldview as the philosophy further developed in the 20th century. There are many variations of existentialism, but the main idea of it is that human lives has “no meaning unless people give them meaning.” To elaborate, existentialists say that although life itself originally has…

We are driven by our environment, biology and unconscious influence around us as free will is a state of mind. Free will is the idea that we have a choice in how we act and it assumes that we are unrestricted in choosing our actions, therefore we stand self-determined. We have the power to act without constraint of necessity or fate of discretion and a person remains in control of their own life. The idea of free will gives humans reason to exist. As if free will does not exist, then we live…

Other than the theme absurdity, Jean Paul Sartre also evolved the idea of alienation into Existentialism. The theme alienation is displayed in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. As Hamlet is struggling with the loss of his father, his friends and family start to betray him and leave him to feel as if he only has himself to trust. “Ay, so, God, be wi’ ye! Now I am alone. O! What a rogue and peasant slave am I: It is not monstrous that this player here, but in a fiction, in a dream of passion,…

Albert Camus once stated that a novel “is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images” (Kellman). In his works, such as The Stranger, he envelops the ideal of absurdism, which the Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary & Cultural Criticism states that, drawn upon from The Myth of Sisyphus, includes the idea that “in a world without God, human life and human suffering have no intrinsic meaning.” The philosophy stemmed from and closely resembles existentialism, which sees the predicament…