LIVING TO THE FULL

It is often the young who challenge the rules and regulations set out by society. For this reason, many young people were thrilled the freedom conveyed in Sartre’s statement that we all have “total choice of oneself”

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Sartre’s most significant personal contribution and the thing his philosophy became best known for, was the way he dramatized the freedom of the individual. In a Godless world, he said, we have no alternative but to choose, and in that sense create, our own values. Yet in doing this we are laying down the ground-rules of our own lives. And in doing that we are determining how our own personalities develop: we are creating ourselves. ` Page 217

. . . Not only Sartre plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre a brilliant writer, he was internationally famous as a playwright and novalist, something no other philosopher had achieved: those who came closest were Rousseau, who wrote two highly successful novels, and Camus, who we shall come in a moment. In 1964 Sartre was offered the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turned it down. It may be that his fame as a creative writer will outlive his fame as a philosopher ~ Page 216

. . . Unsurprisingly perhaps he became a professional teacher of philosophy. In 1938 he published a novel, ‘Nausea,’ which is really a phenomenological account of a mind in the process of disintegration. In 1940 came his first important work of directly written philosophy. The French title means “The Imaginary,” but in an uncomprehending English translation called it ‘The Psychology of Imagination.’ World War II changed Sartre’s life. After joining the French army he was captured and imprisoned by the Germans. In prison he studied Heidegger’s philosophy, and wrote his first play. On his release he lived in occupied Paris, where he wrote his most important work. ‘Being and Nothingness’ (1943) ~ Page 216

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