Sartre's argument against the existence of God.

Sartre's arg. against existence of god.. check it out.

WRECKAGE

Smooth and smiling faces, but ruin in their eyes. Mathieu suddenly felt a kinship with all those creatures who would have done so much better to go home but no longer had the power and sat there smoking slender cigarettes, drinking steely-tasting compounds, smiling as their ears oozed music, and dismally contemplating the wreckage of their destiny; he felt the discreet apppeal of a humble and timorous happiness: "Fancy being one of that lot...."

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR... AND SARTRE?

The Holiness of Reading: don't put your blinders on.

Yes, Lukacs has the instruments to understand Heidegger, but he will not understand him; for Lukacs would have to read him, to grasp the meaning of the sentences one by one.  And there is no longer any Marxist, who is still capable of doing this.  Finally, then, there has existed a whole dialectic--and a very complex one--from Brentano to Husserl and from Husserl to Heidegger...All this adds up to what one could call an area history.  Ought we to consider it a pure epi-phenomenon?  According to what Lukacs says, yes.  Or does there exist some kind of movement of ideas, and does Husserl's phenomenology--as a moment perserved and surpassed--enter into Heidegger's system?  In this case the principles of Marxism are not changed but the situation becomes much more complex.  (Sartre, Search for a Method pg 38)

READING NOTES: BEING AND NOTHINGNESS by JEAN PAUL SARTRE. Pages 619 through 629.

12/1/09 through 12/2/09


Reading notes on BEING AND NOTHINGNESS by JEAN PAUL SARTRE. Pages 619 through 629.
"Part II. Freedom and Facticity: The Situation"

Part 1: The problem is set forth.

"Much more than [one] appears "to make [oneself]," [one] seems "to be made' by climate and the earth, race and class, language, the history of the collectivity of which [one] is a part, heredity, the individual circumstances of his childhood, acquired habits, the great and small events of life" (619 BN).