Jean-Paul Sartre, Lecture 1: Existence Precedes Essence

A introductory lecture on Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism.

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[Jide-bqyf]

I’ve never encountered existentialism in such practicality . And this is coming from 35 years of addiction to philosophy . You’re a great teacher

[felicityg]

Really engaging and easy to understand. Great lecture

[TheShepherdFilms]

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[thetruthoutside]

The best who explained this concept. Excellent. As if Pull is saying that you or we must transcend our conditions to create different conditions even if there are limitations. But it still remains the question of the mechanism of making a decision if all there is a physical brain.

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[childofpersia]

Sisyphus’s task to roll the rock up and down was his facticity. How he FEELS about it is his freedom. BOOM! Thanks Prof!

[Bazzo]

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[pvc]

Great lecture! Sartre's take on freedom and facticity reminded me so much of Epictetus and the Stoics. Wonder if there is a major distinction in their thinking here.

[TheShepherdFilms]

It is an interesting point that is very similar here...in the Nine Inch Nails song happiness in slavery, "I have found you can find happiness in slavery"...a song that made me think about a lot of thing at an early age..there is a lot of depth to it...because it is not saying "slavery is good because slaves can be happy" it is infact saying "this is a terrible place and I shall carve out and make my world as happy as I can inside hell" Trent Reznor...way more than Metallica is definitely a philosopher...thinking about and probably researching philosophy...for sure..

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