INTRODUCTION 3
SARTRE’S LIFE AND WORK 4
METAPHYSICS: CONCIOUSNESS AND OBJECTIVES, ATHEISM 5
THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE: EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE, NEGATION AND FREEDOM 6
DIAGNOSIS: ANGUISH AND BAD FAITH, CONFLICT WITH OTHERS 7
PRESCRIPTION: REFLECTIVE CHOICE 7
THE “FIRST ETHICS”: AUTHENTICITY AND FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE 8
THE “SECOND ETHICS”: SOCIETY AND HUMAN NEEDS 8
CONCLUSION 9
REFERENCE LIST 10
INTRODUCTION
This assignment focuses on Jean-Paul Sartre who was a philosopher who wrote original books and he was recognised as France’s leading philosopher. It is also about how he was very public about his ideas and he applied them in the social and political issues of his time, and he was controversial in the sense that he …show more content…
However to be an existentialist consists of some overview of human condition analysis with the obvious division between the theist and atheist accounts (Stevenson & Haberman, 2004). Soren Kierkegaard is recognized as the first modern existentialist even though there is an existential dimension to all religions such as Paul, Augustine, Luther and Pascal in the Christian tradition. Kierkegaard rejected Hegelian’s philosophy, he instead concentrated on what he thought was important which is the individual and their life choices. There are three attitudes which he distinguishes mainly the: aesthetic, the ethical and the religion with religion being the highest which is reached by nonrational free people into the arms of God (Stevenson & Haberman, …show more content…
He presented a materialist view of human nature in his Critique of Dialectical Reason he then defines man as a material organism and no longer as a free conscious being (Stevenson & Haberman, 2004). He accepts that economic, material foundations at any stage of the human society places no limits on an individual’s freedom and the possibilities that they are faced with within that culture (Stevenson & Haberman,