Human, All Too Human (BBC) - Jean Paul Sartre: Part 1

[CROCEX]

@Blunic have you read sartre? the prime source.

[josephpatrickknox]

@Blunic Too bad people don't realize Heidegger was just recycling ideas from Husserl.

[Fupper16]

This guy was offered the Nobel Prize and turned it down. Badass!

[zaggiemehani]

oh yeah, in face of endless freedom, I would instantly stab my own hand.

[iiNDiTC]

'I have no friends, is that why my flesh is so naked'

[nappyweed111]

@Blunic right millions of people have read his, countless scholars have praised his writing style...but YOU, an unknown genius have caught on and exposed sartre! amazing!

[MattyMattThing]

this is what i think everyday but i needed someone else but me to say it. Thanks for the video.

This shall help me.

[eltonjohnfan109]

pursuing absolute freedom seems like an extreme, impractical position... but then in the 50s that entailed dancing with people to jazz music... really, in such a conservative society, do you really expect people to keep those rules? that made me laugh.

[josephpatrickknox]

@eltonjohnfan109 I was going to form a rebuttal, but then I read your User ID.

No rebuttal needed.

"Daniel"

[brod2man]

You can tell something is not right, when an idea of freedom is seen to be 'owned' by one man's mind.

People would look at this as an opinion, ignoring the fact that everyone is capable of changing their way of life in a instant.

[mrfreudable]

Read "Nausea" first and maybe "No Exit" and keep a copy of "Being And Nothingness" which you can dip into throughout your life. There are also other novels which you can read if you wish. There all worth a look. "Nausea" is particularly good. Enjoy.

[XtalGameVids]

@mrfreudable i must say nausea turned me on like no book has since reading descartes in my teens.

no exit i enjoyed too :)

[CocteauDalighari]

@mrfreudable Also "Search for a Method," written in the late 50s, which was his service road away from existentialism: it's also a good synopsis of his & genuine marxists' views of the USSR after it crushed the Hungarian uprising in 1956.

[pierolivier111]

I totally agree whit killing him

[TripleEvent]

LOL @ BHL ! Sorry, he just caught me off guard...

[boozara]

your life will be your own work of art,,,,it is merely what you make of it,,condemned to be free.....a valueless universe,,?.....the road to freedom....you are responsible and have the right and duty to choose,,,,what matters...IS YOUR CHOICE.....happy?

[coolguy7248]

@boozara

superbly put thats all to it ,but howmany really accept it and apply it

[Ge0vone]

@boozara Is this what his view on morality was?

[gurlsingerfan]

@Ge0vone It is more involved and complex than it looks. With "freedom" comes responsibility. If you choose a morality that is damaging to those around you, will you accept the consequences (Hitlers fate, death in the bunker, or jail etc.). Your freedom now can lead to suffering later (sickness, etc.). Sartre in some ways ways was the first "post modernist" in that his view was a lack of a "meta-story". YOU alone must decide what to do where you are now, without consolation it will work.

[Ge0vone]

@gurlsingerfan Interesting.

So far, I'm a fan of Kant and Karr-something

[gurlsingerfan]

@Ge0vone Yes,Søren Kierkegaard, if you read him brace yourself, it is unlike anything else...his issues with the "leap of failth" which can redeem are strong medicine (when I first read him I was frightened in an odd way). May I also recommend someone else? Robert Pirsig and his books "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence" and "Lila". Pirsig accepts as the one great "meta-story" the relationship between "object" and "subject" creating value, change as value sought by the universe.

[Ge0vone]

@gurlsingerfan Wasn't Kierkegaard theme was revolved around love?

[gurlsingerfan]

@Ge0vone Absolutely. But what requires a "leap of faith" more than love? He was madly in love with a young woman (Regina) and an announcement they would be married. However, Kierkegaard had regret concerning the whole idea, and backed out. He then battled out in his writings the reasons for his lack of willingness to give himself to this young woman. The issue seems to have been the existential loss of self giving all to the beloved. It's complex, love of self, of God, beloved, what to do?

[Ge0vone]

@gurlsingerfan I see, man I do need to read more on this guy.

What books should I read from him?

[gurlsingerfan]

@Ge0vone Of Kierkegaard's works, "Fear and Trembling" and "Either/Or, A Fragment of Life" are great starting places. There are also collected writings of his, diaries and journals, a good one being avaiable "The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard" available on Amazon. Penguin Publishing also puts out "Papers and Journals: A Selection" of journals by Kierkegaard. The volume of work is HUGE, the man wrote about everything, every thought, every mood. His goal: What is right FOR ME at this moment.

[SweSa89]

just love she says "you should kill men like that you should kill the"

[Suchy1410]

Krol lewakow.