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Life and works jeanpaul sartre was born in paris on june 20, 1905, and died there april 15, 1980. Being and nothingness is the major work by jean paul sartre and can be considered as the most complete work of existentialist philosophy published in 1943 during the german occupation in france, sartre presents it as an essay on phenomenological consciousness. Jeanpaul sartres being and nothingness paul vincent spade. Being and nothingness quotes jeanpaul sartre lib quotes.
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Being and nothingness by jeanpaul sartre professional moron. After completing his studies, he taught for fifteen years, traveled widely, and studied the writings of existentialists martin heidegger and edmund husserl. Sartre places human consciousness, or nothingness neant, in opposition to being, or thingness etre. An essay on phenomenological ontology, sometimes subtitled a phenomenological essay on ontology, is a 1943 book by the philosopher jean paul sartre, in which the author asserts the individuals existence as prior to the individuals essence and seeks to demonstrate that free. First, it is one thing to take sartres claims about the nothingness. As a teenager sartre was drawn to philosophy after reading henri bergsons time and free will.
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