PHIL 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existence Precedes Essence, Existentialism
4 Apr 2016
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Debate there is a moral obligation to improve human nature through technology . Jean paul sartre (1905 1980: anguish, abandonment, despair, optimism, action, morality. Sartre had been an active member of the marquee of the french resistence movement. He refused a literature award that he was offered. Sartre said not only we are free, we are condemned to be free. Freeedom is a pre-condition of our humanity. Sartre"s essay was written for general consumption. He was responding to the critics of his existential movement. His essay was a non technical statement of his philosophy as well as a response to the criticisms made on him. For sartre, the will choose one thing and reject another, is the most important. No, because exercising our wills involves negation. If we make a decision of becoming a doctor, we negate the choice of starting an internet business or roaming around europe.
