What is existentialism? Perhaps there is no direct answer. That which gathers itself into the term “existentialism” is...
What Does Sartre Mean by “Transcendence”?
Transcendence occurs because the “for-itself”, that is, consciousness, is a nothingness. Consciousness, for Sartre, is what it is...
What Did Sartre Say About the body?
The body is not a tool that the individual might use, but rather the center and origin of...
Sartre on Anguish: “We Are Anguish”
Sartre defines consciousness as nothingness and nothingness as freedom. It is in this togetherness of consciousness and freedom...
What Does Sartre Mean by “Being in-Itself”?
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre refuses any dualistic thinking of the world, and introduces what he calls “being...
Why Did Sartre Refuse the Freudian Unconscious?
The unconscious, for Sartre, means that there is a part of ourselves that is absent, radically foreign, and...