Watch 45-50 minutes of some combination of the following on Sartre and de Beauvoir, or discover your own videos on one or the other or both and post the links. Post at least a brief comment on how the video relates to Chpt 9.
BBC on Sartre, Nietzsche & Heidegger
Sartre on Intellectualism & knowledge
Sartre & de Beauvoir
After watching the video on Sartre and his life, two quotes stood out to me. The first discusses the meaning of life and why we exist. “There is some answer, some inner answer, to the question of who we are. There is no predetermined character which makes you be who you are, who you are is the function of what you do.” This is interesting to me because it is so true. Nobody comes into this world knowing exactly what they will do or be. Over time things change, people change, we all learn from education and experience and this molds and shapes our lives. We have the freedom to make choices and do as we please. In Chapter 9, it states that there is no particular way of life that one recommends but cautions against bad faith.
ReplyDeleteThe second is regarding God versus freedom, Sartre’s argument is that they cannot coexist. “If god exists, man is not free. If man is free, then god does not exist.” I think that Sartre makes a good point because in my experience the decisions I have made have had a greater effect on my future than any other outside influences.
I agree with April because we live our entire lives trying to define who we are as human beings and have not come up with a universal answer. Because each answer is unique to how each individual person lives their life based on their experiences and how they choose to learn from mistakes and successes that they have made. I agree with April that who you are is the function of what you do meaning that actions are who what makes us who we are. It is true that coming into this world is strange because it very unfamiliar to us so we must learn by what are parents. schooling teaches us how to live.
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