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SARTRE AND IMPLICATIONS OF ATHEISM

Dudette
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Posted 04/21/08 - 03:49 AM: Subject: SARTRE AND IMPLICATIONS OF ATHEISM	#1
I am a college student currently studying philosophy at A2. I am having alot of trouble, trying to start my synoptic paper which is on CRITICISMS (AND IMPLICATIONS) OF JEAN PAUL SARTRES ATHEISM. Last year I read existentialism and humanism as part of my exam on a selected text... I came out with an B on the exam and found it a very interesting matter. So I do have some backround knowledge of Sartre. However I am really worried as im not entirely sure where to go with my my research... I thought it would b a good idea if I started by introducing his general ideas of 'existence percedes essence' for all those things that are 'being for itself'... then going on to talk about how this leads us to abandonment, anguish and dispair. (I will be careful that I do address the question and do not stray to much!! Aswell I wil make sure as not to copy any work of other people and referencing any texts I do use) So really lookin for any advice on where to then take my work, I have looked at some extracts that I have pulled from the interent just by googling 'sartre and athism'. However it all seems to be out of my depth. All advice and ideas are welcome and much appreciated.

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Posted 04/21/08 - 07:51 AM:	#2
I have recently had an epiphany which echoes what I learned from Leonard Savage - Neither 100% nor 0% are admissible values for degrees of belief since both imply a closed mind. For me, this suggests a good reason to adhere neither to theism nor its opposite. Frankly, I don't believe in believing.
Leave no assumption unquestioned.

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Posted 04/21/08 - 09:29 AM:	#3
Dudette wrote: I am a college student currently studying philosophy at A2. I am having alot of trouble, trying to start my synoptic paper which is on CRITICISMS (AND IMPLICATIONS) OF JEAN PAUL SARTRES ATHEISM. Last year I read existentialism and humanism as part of my exam on a selected text... I came out with an B on the exam and found it a very interesting matter. So I do have some backround knowledge of Sartre. However I am really worried as im not entirely sure where to go with my my research... I thought it would b a good idea if I started by introducing his general ideas of 'existence percedes essence' for all those things that are 'being for itself'... then going on to talk about how this leads us to abandonment, anguish and dispair. (I will be careful that I do address the question and do not stray to much!! Aswell I wil make sure as not to copy any work of other people and referencing any texts I do use) So really lookin for any advice on where to then take my work, I have looked at some extracts that I have pulled from the interent just by googling 'sartre and athism'. However it all seems to be out of my depth. All advice and ideas are welcome and much appreciated. I would think that if you start by following the leads that Sartre states in the quotation below, from his essay/lecture Existentialism is a Humanism one thing will follow from another (as you no doubt know from your earlier studies this is a short essay and it is available in full, online). Remember Sartre represents just one version of an existential conclusion. You can contrast his view with other existentialists, not least to its origins in Kierkegaard... who not reach atheistic conclusions. Sartre gives you other examples for both sides of the issue underlined by me below ... "Existentialists may be Christians (such as the Catholics Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel) or atheists (like Heidegger and myself). What they have in common is to believe that existence comes before essence, that we must begin from the subjective. What do we mean by that? If one considers an article of manufacture, say a book or a paper-knife, one sees that it has been made to serve a definite purpose. Its essence, the sum of the formulae and qualities which made its definition and production possible, precedes its existence. If we think of God as creator, then the conception of man in the mind of God is comparable to that of the paper knife in the mind of the artisan. Atheist existentialism (of which I am a representative) declares that there is only one being whose existence comes before its essence - that being is man (or, as Heidegger has it, human reality). "

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Posted 05/05/08 - 06:42 PM:	#4
You may want to mention how Sartre claims that without God man is left to define morality. Man is left to act the way that way that he wants others to act.

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