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Sartre: “Man Is a Useless Passion”

In Being and Nothingness, Sartre says that “man is a useless passion”: An acknowledgment of the human condition...

Sartre’s atheism is radical; it is philosophical and personal, ontological and subjective, phenomenological and poetic; it is the...

The assumption that there exists a God, a conscious God that preceded and created the universe is something...

Bad faith lies at the heart of the existentialism of Sartre. It appears early in Being and Nothingness...

For Sartre, the contingency of being means existing without ever finding the reason for this existence and hence...

For Sartre, there are two modes of being: “Being in-itself” and “Being for-itself”. “Being for-itself” is the mode...

Transcendence occurs because the “for-itself”, that is, consciousness, is a nothingness. Consciousness, for Sartre, is what it is...

In Being and Nothingness, Sartre refuses any dualistic thinking of the world, and introduces what he calls “being...