In existographies, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) (IQ:165|#461) [RGM:355|1,500+] (Stokes 100:73) (EPD:F2) (Becker 139:13) (GPhE:#) [CR:54] was French atheist existentialist philosopher, predominately noted for his 1943 Being and Nothingness, who promoted an anti-deterministic variety, i.e. science not based on causality, of individual “freedom as the foundation of all values” type of existentialism, according to the logic of “existence precedes essence”, meaning that man first materializes into the world, encounters himself, and only afterwards defines himself. “The effect of any form of materialism is to treat all men—including oneself—as objects, which is to say as a set of predetermined reactions indistinguishable from the properties and phenomena that constitute, say, a table, a chair, or a stone. Our aim is exactly to establish the human kingdom as a set of values distinct from the material world.”
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| American writer Jeremy Rifkin's 2010 view that Sartre's Being and Nothingness is one of the typical stops on the average atheist person's queries about the nature of existence (see: belief system children). [2] |
“You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can tell you what you ought to do; there are no signs in this world.”
See main: Atheist deathbed deconversionsSartre, in his latter year, began to waver on his atheistic beliefs, leaning, in the end, towards Judaism. In 1974, in an interview with Simone de Beauvoir, his lover, he stated: (Ѻ)
“I see myself as a being that could, it seems, only come from a creator. This, however, is not a clear, exact idea.”
“I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to god.”
“Hell is just other people.”— Jean-Paul Sartre (1944), The Exist (character: Garcin)
“Existence precedes essence. A human first exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world, and defines himself afterwards.”— Jean-Paul Sartre (c.1960) [4]
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”— Jean-Paul Sartre (c.1960) (Ѻ)
“I was led to unbelief not though conflicting dogma but through my grandparent’s indifference.”— Jean-Paul Sartre (c.1960) [4]
