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Sartre defends existentialism against various reproaches and explains its basic principle of existence preceding essence. He argues that existentialism is a humanism that affirms the possibility of choice and responsibility in human life.
Existentialism Is a Humanism (French: L'existentialisme est un humanisme) is a 1946 work by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, based on a lecture by the same name he gave at Club Maintenant in Paris, on 29 October 1945.
Sartre defends existentialism against four charges: that it is pessimistic, action-averse, subjective, and individualistic. He argues that existentialism is a humanism because it affirms human freedom, responsibility, and intersubjectivity.
Existentialism Is a Humanism on JSTOR. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. Translated by CAROL MACOMBER. Introduction by ANNIE COHEN-SOLAL. Notes and Preface by ARLETTE ELKAÏM-SARTRE. Edited by JOHN KULKA. Copyright Date: 2007. Published by: Yale University Press. Pages: 128. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv15vwkgx. Select all. (For EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley)
Existentialism is a Humanism Lyrics. My purpose here is to defend existentialism against several reproaches that have been laid against it. Existentialism has been criticised for inviting...
Nevertheless Existentialism and Humanism provides a good introduction to a number of key themes in his major work of the same period, Being and Nothingness, and to some of the fundamental questions about human existence which are the starting point for most people’s interest in philosophy at all.
Mar 26, 2022 · Few philosophers have been as famous in their own life-time as Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80). Many thousands of Parisians packed into his public lecture, Existentialism is a Humanism, towards the end of 1945 and the culmination of World War 2.
