No Exit is widely regarded as the literary expression of another Sartrean work, Being and Nothingness, published the same year. Though decidedly a philosophical text, the latter work, like No Exit , is not reducible to a singular meaning. That is to say, complexities inherent to both works ...
Sartre wrote that freedom is the ability to define and assign meaning to things and events. Without thought, we could not be free. As an example, the play No Exit is about the results of how we define ourselves — especially those who fail to seize the freedom to define themselves. ...
Every person is different based upon the events that occur in their lives and no everyone can experience the same things and take away the same responsibilities. The actions people take are based off of how they choose to create meaning is what makes them the kind of person they are. Even...
Pope John Paul II (1984) wrote "On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering", that it centres on the notion of redemptive suffering - to remit one’s sins in order to save the soul from eternal suffering (damnation). Personally, I believe suffering can have a purpose. It can enrich ...
"Nausea" is the story of a man who, after arduous searching, finds the terrible truth that life has no meaning, that it's simply nauseating excess, like vomit or excrement. (Sartre deliberately tends toward obscene images because he feels life itself is obscene.) ...
proposes to elucidate the meaning of Sartre's critique of belief by placing this critique in the context of early Sartrian philosop... A Pacini - Christian communities in the Arab Middle East : the challenge of the future 被引量: 16发表: 1998年 Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy The ...
“The myth of Sisyphus”.The myth of Sisyphus starts with, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy”, this is however a more literal meaning of ...
In a sentence, Kant believed that there may be a noumenal world out there, but that it is entirely unknowable through our senses. An event may have a meaning beyond the one we experience it at the moment, but there’s no way to recognize this meaning. ...
Therefore we can see that he borrows from Hegel's idea of the relationality of objects and phenomena, but the related- ness of objects does not point to meaning beyond itv. There is no teleology and therefore no dialectic involved in Sartre's formulation of reality. The only dialectic that...
While Sartre directly talks about freedom, Heidegger discusses the existential anxiety (Angst) that arises when we confront the vast possibilities of our freedom. This fear stems from recognizing that our lives are not preordained and that we are responsible for choosing and giving meaning to our ...