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- Sartre's early atheism, but note the pervasive nature of secularised Christian metaphors and concepts in his religion of letters and the centrality of man's desire to be God in Being and Nothingness. His theoretical writings seek to refute the idea of God, but in doing so God is paradoxically both absent and present.
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Aug 7, 2017 · The idea of God—whether God exists or not—had a profound influence on Sartre’s philosophy. And this philosophy was not formed in an irreligious cloister—it met, engaged with, and inspired theology.
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God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man. Jean-Paul Sartre.
the idea of God throughout his career. In Part 1 we examine. Sartre's early atheism, but note the pervasive nature of secularised Christian metaphors and concepts in his religion of letters and the centrality of man's desire to be God in Being and Nothingness.
Mar 4, 2021 · In her careful study of Sartre’s intellectual debt to the theological tradition, Kate Kirkpatrick argues that Sartre’s conception of the human desire ‘to become God’ is an explicit reference to the Christian terminology for sin, especially the sicut Deus of Genesis 3:5 and Augustinian tradition (Sartre on Sin, 184). But while one may ...
- King-Ho Leung
- 2021
In Chapter Two, I examine Sartre's remarks concerning God in Being and Nothingness. On the one hand, considering the length of this essay, Sartre's comments about God are surprisingly very few. However, on the other hand, considering the quasi phenomenological structure of Sartre's thought, it is even more surprising that he refers to God at all.
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Mar 26, 2022 · The Ego is the specific object that intentional consciousness is directed upon when performing reflection—an object that consciousness “posits and grasps […] in the same act” (Sartre 1936a [1957: 41; 2004: 5]), and that is constituted in and by the act of reflection (Sartre 1936a [1957: 80–1; 2004: 20]).
Sartre's treatment of the Death of God in recent intellectual history is significant in helping readers today understand his atheism. Since the term is commonly associated with Friedrich Nietzsche, we will look at his use of it, and then consider his influence on Sartre before studying Sartre's references to the Death of God in four prin-