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February 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024
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February 27, 2024
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1.56%
"From introduction:
"His (Sartre) texts often make uncomfortable reading: one goes to Sartre expecting to be indulged in one's existential crisis and finds oneself being told instead, to take responsibility for the whole world.""
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"His (Sartre) texts often make uncomfortable reading: one goes to Sartre expecting to be indulged in one's existential crisis and finds oneself being told instead, to take responsibility for the whole world.""
March 1, 2024
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7.81%
""He thereby discovers that thetasks one sets for oneselfonly serve to veil what, in the passage under consideration, he comes to call the absurdity of existence.""
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March 3, 2024
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15.63%
""In contrast with the contingency of existence that for Roquentin characterizes things and even himself, the music displays a certain necessity and in so doing cures his nausea.""
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March 3, 2024
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15.63%
""He wonders if the answer to his problem does not lie in having an adventure, because, unlike life in general, adventures share with melodies the characteristic of having a beginning and an end. However he discovers that this is not so easy and that there is an artificiality to the construction of an adventure.""
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March 3, 2024
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""It is by freely projecting the possibilities of one's existence that one determines how one sees things, what function they have, and their place in the world. That is why the breakdown of one's project, not only deprives a person of meaning but also leads things to lose their significance.""
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March 13, 2024
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30.47%
""All those who depend on others for validation are hostage to the judgements that those others pass on them.""
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March 13, 2024
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32.03%
""Because nothing is more important than others for our understanding of ourselves, then if our relations with others are warped or depraved, then hell is others.""
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March 17, 2024
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34.38%
""In this sense it is necessary that we make ourselves what we are. But what are we then if we have the constant obligation to make ourselves what we are, if our mode of being is having the obligation to be what we are?""
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March 18, 2024
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41.41%
""For from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without anything or any person being able to lighten it."
From the book, quoted from 'Being and nothingness'"
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From the book, quoted from 'Being and nothingness'"
March 20, 2024
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43.75%
"'At its simplest, Sartre is saying that my freedom to choose my goals or projects entails that I have also chosen the obstacles I encounter along the way. It's by deciding to climb this mountain that I have turned the weakness of my body & the steepness of the cliffs into obstacles, which they were not so, long as I was content simply to gaze at the mountain from the comfort of my chair.'"
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March 20, 2024
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45.31%
"'Sartre initially tells the reader that he is employing the word "responsibility" in the sense that one is responsible for something only if one is its "incontestable author". However, within two pages he has drawn an extraordinary conclusion: "I am responsible for everything, in fact, except my very responsibility.".'"
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March 25, 2024
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51.56%
""For example, to choose to get married is not to say everyone should be married, but it is to support the institution of marriage. Every agent by their actions promotes a type of existence.""
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April 8, 2024
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78.91%
""Sartre succeeded in developing a philosophy that not only gave an account of the basis and operation of oppression, but also showed how adherence to an exaggerated individualismcontributes to the persistence of that oppression, by inhibiting awareness of the solidarity that might allow the oppressed to join together to fight oppression.""
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April 9, 2024
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