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22: How Your Actions Shape the World (Acting With Purpose) - Sartre (Existentialism)
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How Your Actions Shape the World (Acting With Purpose) - Sartre (Existentialism) In this podcast we will talk about how your actions shape the world and how to act with purpose from the philosophy of Sartre. Sartre was one of the leading philosophers who followed the philosophy of Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French playwright, screenwriter, political activist, literary critic, and one of the leading philosophers who followed the philosophy of Existentialism: the philosophy that says that humans are born a blank slate and are free to determine their own identity, behavior and goals. Sartre temporarily supported the communist actions of the Soviet Union, causing tension that resulted in a lifelong break from his friend and philosopher Albert Camus. However, after the invasion of Hungary by Soviet Forces, Sartre publicly denounced the Soviet Union and eventually the French Communist Party as well, due to its authoritarian tendencies. Sartre was born in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century and when he was around sixty years old, he was awarded the1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. He however refused the prize, claiming that “a writer should never allow himself to become an institution.” Sartre wrote many fictional and non-fictional books, essays and gave lectures on Existentialism. Some of his noted works are: Nausea, Being and Nothingness, Existentialism is a Humanism, and No Exit. One of Sartre’s key-concepts that is discussed or prevalent in almost all of his existentialist works is the notion of “Bad Faith”, which he uses to describe and critique how most people tend to deny their own freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French playwright, screenwriter, political activist, literary critic, and one of the leading philosophers who followed the philosophy of Existentialism: the philosophy that says that humans are born a blank slate and are free to determine their own identity, behavior and goals. Sartre temporarily supported the communist actions of the Soviet Union, causing tension that resulted in a lifelong break from his friend and philosopher Albert Camus. However, after the invasion of Hungary by Soviet Forces, Sartre publicly denounced the Soviet Union and eventually the French Communist Party as well, due to its authoritarian tendencies. Sartre was born in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century and when he was around sixty years old, he was awarded the1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. He however refused the prize, claiming that “a writer should never allow himself to become an institution.” Sartre wrote many fictional and non-fictional books, essays and gave lectures on Existentialism. Some of his noted works are: Nausea, Being and Nothingness, Existentialism is a Humanism, and No Exit. One of Sartre’s key-concepts that is discussed or prevalent in almost all of his existentialist works is the notion of “Bad Faith”, which he uses to describe and critique how most people tend to deny their own freedom
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