PHILOSOPHY - Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre explored the problems and joys of being fundamentally free. Existentialism, the belief system with which he is associated, considers the anguish of freedom.

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“Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905. His father, a navy captain, died when he was a baby – and he grew up extremely close to his mother until she remarried, much to his regret, when he was twelve. Sartre spent most of his life in Paris, where he often went to cafes on the Left Bank and sat on benches in the Jardin du Luxembourg. He had a strabismus, a wandering eye, and wore distinctive, heavy glasses. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature, but refused it on the grounds that the award was capitalist and bourgeois. He was very short (five feet three inches) and frequently described himself as ugly. He wore his hair vigorously brushed back. When he died in 1980 (aged 74), 50,000 people accompanied his coffin through the streets of Paris...”

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[OpEditorial]

Descartes: "I think therefore I am"

Sartre: "I overthink, therefore what even am I?!"

[SydAliHsn]

who else just gets a sudden existentialism crisis when they focus on someone's face they have known and have been seeing for a long time and it turns out that they look nothing like you think they do.

[Michael-jfnp]

"Hello, sir. I will be your waiter this evening." - attentive waiter
"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man." - Sartre

[utkukurban]

I remember the first time i had a moment of absurdity. I was talking to my mother and all of a sudden i saw her as if I have never seen her, as if she was a complete stranger to me. And when i told her that in that very instant she could not understand it. I hope everyone can fell such moments. It is really invigorating.

[fermiLiquidDrinker]

"One eye on the intrinsic meaninglessness of life, and another on the bitches."

[ChaseTheHorizons]

'Another being who's genitals you sometimes touch' thats just what I call all of my significant others

[bailinnumberguy]

Whenever I get somewhat depressed I read Sartre or Kierkegaard. They remind me that my life is utterly meaningless and my depression implies that I should give a shit about anything.

[Charvack]

Bus conductor: sir please take a seat.
Sartre: What do you mean by seat?

[LunaLu-]

"The admission that life doesn't have preordained logic and is not inherently meaningful can be a source of immense relief when we feel oppressed by the weight of tradition and the status quo"

[KittySnicker]

I've had those moments of absurdity frequently, where I'll think about how weird a word is, for instance.

[TheBaaLambChampion]

Philosophy is such an invigorating force for me. When I hear a new idea and have it instantly resonate with my own feelings and thoughts, it is a feeling like no other. This also underlines the idea that your every feeling and thought has already been experienced and widely explored by others in the past, put into words and described by philosophical writers at length.

I am so fortunate to understand the implications of this... how important reading is, educating oneself, and how these things help deepen the understanding of yourself and the world. What an impact consistent study of this kind of material has over time... even if it's just 5-10 pages of a book a day, or a single video like this - the effect is cumulative.

It's what Stephen Covey would call a Quadrant II activity (Not-Urgen and Important), but what most people would not even think of as important.

[PlasmaCoolantLeak]

Sartre died and arrived in Heaven. St. Peter showed him around, showing the gardens, the animals, the people.
Sartre: "It's nice, but not what I imagined."
St. Peter: "What did you imagine?"
Sartre: "Nothing."

[ihazthots]

You know you're onto something if the FBI maintains a file on your actions.

[TomboTime]

"You don't arrest Voltaire"

haha . . . rad.

[samrobinson]

the satrian description of an evening meal is quality

[stoned]

lowkey, sartre probably was a good philosopher because his lazy eye could look into another dimension

[juliuskull]

Satre's philosophy is classical stoner philosophy. "Seat.... whaaat?"

[MrColdJin]

Is it normal if I felt like clapping at the end of the video?
Jokes aside, to whoever actually makes these: thank you.

[ClassiicMe]

The interesting thing about Sartre is that the general idea of his philosophy is quite simple and easy to understand, but his delivery is incredibly confusing almost as if he’s proving the point of the absurdity of the world. He’s by far my favorite philosopher and my favorite philosophy.

[AKNeal]

"...the weight of tradition and the status quo." The descriptive term for my issue with society today that I've been searching for most of my life. This channel is like free therapy! Proud to be a "Student of Life"