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Ledvolta (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 04:31:14 AM)

As a Christian, his ideas don't offend me at all. It's merely different.

lourak (Tuesday 1st of January 2008 09:52:40 PM)

Sartre's arbitrary "leap" into social activism, was an act of the utmost "bad-faith" (his terminology), in that he abandoned the essential core elements of his philosophy of existence. To pretend that anything other than a thorough-going nihilism can be derived from a philosophy that posits: "existence precedes essence" - with the attendant stripping away of all objective or metaphysical meaning and value in both the moral and pragmatic spheres of human life, is the ultimate hypocrisy.

alexstan23 (Friday 11th of January 2008 08:41:20 AM)

Well he tried later on in his Dialectic. Ultimately incompatible with Being and Nothingness, yes, but no harm in attempting the leap. After all, we all share at least our position ("facticity"), so a "thorough-going nihilism" seems unduly pessimistic.

alexstan23 (Friday 11th of January 2008 08:49:55 AM)

Universal needs call for universal values/rememdies, e.g scarcity

plaussible (Friday 18th of January 2008 01:30:47 PM)

I don't think you can say he's a hypocrit derived from his philosophy, He was simply exercising his freedom

cvjucla3 (Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:00:30 AM)

Exactly. Sarte seems to have it right. With a god, you are not really free. With no god, you are free. The theist can't quite comprehend that you can create your own moral compass without having to submit to a so-called "moral" god to do so.

Antichrist4Life (Thursday 18th of October 2007 10:20:47 AM)

Furthermore it is very weak the way fundamentalists attack strong-minded men like Sartre for being able to think outside the theistic box. Their impoverished egos feel superior by calling them degenerate and immoral, not realizing, b/c of their base minds, that they are saying that without a holy book they themselves would be immoral! It's quite risible, actually. They resent anyone who has accepted something very offensive and scarey to them - that they are going to cease to exist one day.

applestar132 (Thursday 18th of October 2007 04:25:06 PM)

I'd rather have morals obligatory to humanity than to the idea of a higher power... I'd posted a reply to littlemas2 below, it was eaten, and I didn't feel up to having the same old fight, you and I are on the same page here. Theistic attacks on Sartre irritate me to no end!

cvjucla3 (Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:01:16 AM)

Nice exchange.

cvjucla3 (Tuesday 18th of December 2007 12:00:56 AM)

Excellent.