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- Although the statement “If there is no God, everything is permitted” is widely attributed to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov — Jean-Paul Sartre was the first to do so in his Being and Nothingness — the nineteenth-century Russian novelist simply never said it.
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Aug 7, 2017 · But the religious application of his thought, like its religious roots, is not. In Words Sartre described ‘the atheist’ as ‘a man with a phobia about God who saw his absence everywhere and who could not open his mouth without saying his name’.
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Feb 5, 2024 · Jean Paul Sartre has said that all of French Existentialism is to be found in Ivan Karamazov's contention that if there is no God, everything is permitted. Katharena Eiermann in "Existentialism and Dostoevsky" as quoted in "Dostoevsky Didn't Say It" by David E. Cortesi, at infidels.org
Jan 22, 2024 · Although the statement “If there is no God, everything is permitted” is widely attributed to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov — Jean-Paul Sartre was the first to do so in his Being and Nothingness — the nineteenth-century Russian novelist simply never said it.
Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.
By using the word ‘abandonment’ in a metaphorical way Sartre emphasises the sense of loss caused by the realisation that there is no God to warrant our moral choices, no divinity to give us guidelines as to how to achieve salvation.
God no longer speaks. The God effect is over; just the corpse remains. God is gone, like a soul that has departed. He was just a dream. However, the essay contends that the effect of belief in God remains, both gener-ally, and in Bataille. Turning to intellectual history, Sartre traces the Death of God back many years before Nietzsche's writings.
For there is no God and no prevenient design, which can adapt the world and all its possibilities to my will. When Descartes said, “Conquer yourself rather than the world,” what he meant was, at bottom, the same – that we should act without hope.
