Jean Paul Sartre: The Road to Freedom (Human, All Too Human, BBC)

Human, All Too Human is a three-part 1999 documentary television series produced by the BBC. It follows the lives of three prominent European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme of this documentary revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing, and Heidegger declaimed the label. The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.
Each episode runs at 60 minutes, for a total length of three hours.
The first episode is titled Beyond Good and Evil, which is about Friedrich Nietzsche and his gradual shift from religion, to nihilism, and finally to insanity. His sister presented the National Socialists (Nazis) with heavily modified versions of Nietzsche's writings that were interpreted as a pro-Nazi agenda; to advance the superior race of the Übermensch, the "superman", the perfect Aryan.
Thinking the Unthinkable is the next episode that centers around Martin Heidegger, who developed ideas from the writings and ideas of Nietzsche in an attempt to better understand individual human freedom. Before and after the reign of the Nazis in Germany, Heidegger spent much of his time living in solitude in the hill of Todtnauberg to allow himself to clear his mind and better focus on his own philosophy. Due to the fact that he joined the Nazis during World War II, his works were dismissed by his critics as Nazi propaganda.
The final episode in this series, The Road to Freedom, describes the life of the French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. This is when the term existentialism begins to enter the realm of philosophy. The documentary shows that Sartre believes it is up to each individual human being to give his or her own life a meaning and a purpose.
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (París, 21 de junio de 1905 -- París, 15 de abril de 1980), conocido comúnmente como Jean-Paul Sartre, fue un filósofo, escritor y dramaturgo francés, exponente del existencialismo y del marxismo humanista. Fue el décimo escritor francés seleccionado como Premio Nobel de Literatura, pero lo rechazó explicando en una carta a la Academia Sueca que él tenía por regla declinar todo reconocimiento o distinción y que los lazos entre el hombre y la cultura debían desarrollarse directamente, sin pasar por las instituciones. Fue pareja de la también filósofa Simone de Beauvoir.

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Ver:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964-Jean-Paul Sartre http://bit.ly/h2gqlH
Exposition virtuelle Sartre Bibliothèque nationale de France: http://expositions.bnf.fr/sartre/
Jean-Paul Sartre Archive http://bit.ly/hyzlOE
Jean-Paul Sartre (Open Library) http://bit.ly/eabaSS
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• Human All Too Human
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• existencialismo
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[ntnima]

too few views, all too few views

[1theforest]

Churchill was a racist, but he was 'of his time', but Germans are just racist.

[subo667]

@1theforest brainwash mate

[iggy082]

hell is other people.

[1theforest]

Why cant there be a T.V. channel that shows intelligent stuff like this 24 hours a day?

[IgorMorais666]

There is a philosopher who gave us a complete system of rational ideas!

[FeelingFreshSon]

@jesuisjedwardly

That's not true, plenty of people are perfectly happy serving and helping others or worshiping a God. That's not my natural disposition but you can't just generalize that everybody thinks a altruistic existence is "bleak". I'm sure it can be very rewarding.

[capereyda]

why is there no audio...?

[HealMeHealy]

God is Dead, Jay-Z is big pimpin', Eminem is whatever you say he is, I am whatever I say "I" am. Existensialism is real, too real for most, unable to accept they suck because they chose to suck! Day Dream with the weiners, or Daytrip with The Beatles!?

[steve50431]

No sound for me...eh

[mtvaddicts]

Amazing video. thanks so much, helped a bunch with a project on him!