#sartre — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sartre, aggregated by home.social.
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this week, antiarch enjoyer asks kyo about a galaxy express 999 planet where robots do literally every task for you.
got your own question? go on, ask kyo!
http://hekshano.com/askkyo/#askblog #askblog #kyo #kyotoshi #sartre #suega #myche #hekshanian #inhuman
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The anguish of choice
In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains | by Skye C Cleary aeon.co/essays/re-re... #Sartre #choice #freedom #existentialism #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky
Re-reading Sartre’s lecture Ex... -
Tomorrow I will meet a director of a #theatre group in #Maastricht at the statue of Pieke to discuss an idea for a #performance at the #Stokstraat on September 13, 2026
It will take place at the Stokstraat which is now one of the most expensive streets of the #Netherlands but around 1905 the people who lived there where very poor. The idea is related to the book of #Sartre Nausea as a playfull contradiction of #poverty & #capitalism
https://www.visitmaastricht.com/en/events-calendar/1638458876/the-city-paradeAbout Pieke https://www.visitmaastricht.com/en/locations/2619723917/pieke-oet-de-stokstraot
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Living from Being not Doing. When we live who we truly are, the doing becomes easy—an extension of our being.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2013/12/living-from-being-not-doing
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If man possesses a pre-ontological comprehension of the being of God, it is not the great wonders of nature nor the power of society which have conferred it upon him. God, value and supreme end of transcendence, represents the permanent limit in terms of which man makes known to himself what he is. - Jean-Paul Sartre (2/2)
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The best way to conceive of the fundamental project of human reality is to say that man is the being whose project is to be God. Whatever may be the myths and rites of the religion considered, God is first "sensible to the heart" of man as the one who identifies and defines him in his ultimate and fundamental project. - Jean-Paul Sartre (1/2)
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Recently, our book club read the theatre play "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
I started reading the thriller „The Last Time We Drowned“ by Saratoga Schaefer and as it happens, the novel starts with this quote by Jean-Paul Sartre:
“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the ‘burning marl.’ Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”
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Un « marxisme militant » à la Libération (1)
https://www.contretemps.eu/un-marxisme-militant-a-la-liberation-1/
#Politique #Histoire #Théorie #UnePrincipale #Communisme #HenriLefebvre #Marx #Marxisme #Matérialisme #Naville #Pcf #Philosophie #Sartre #Sfio #Socialisme #Stalinisme -
Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) as a child, lost the use of one eye, but later became one of the sharpest observers of human nature.
#Sartre believed that people are not born with a fixed “essence”: we become ourselves through choices.
By the end of his life he was almost blind, but he kept working. Around 50,000 people reportedly came to his funeral procession in Paris.
#reading #books
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“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing”*…
… and so we shouldn’t. Ryan Weber (a professor of technical writing who, happily for us, moonlights) is here to help…
More at “‘Descartes Against Humanity’ and Other Games Designed by Famous Philosophers,” from @mcsweeneys.net.
Unrelated, but important: “Help save Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine by signing this petition.”
* George Bernard Shaw (though often mis-attributed to Benjamin Franklin)
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As we play, we might spare a thought for a philosopher whose game would likely be “The Game of Life,” Bernard Williams; he died on this date in 2003. As Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Williams became known for his efforts to reorient the study of moral philosophy to psychology, history, and in particular to the Greeks.
His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), Shame and Necessity (1993), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). Gilbert Ryle, one of Williams’s mentors at Oxford University, said that Williams “understands what you’re going to say better than you understand it yourself, and sees all the possible objections to it, and all the possible answers to all the possible objections, before you’ve got to the end of your own sentence.”
Described by Colin McGinn as an “analytical philosopher with the soul of a general humanist,” he was sceptical about attempts to create a foundation for moral philosophy. Martha Nussbaum wrote that he demanded of philosophy that it “come to terms with, and contain, the difficulty and complexity of human life.”
#analyticPhilosophy #BernardWilliams #culture #Descartes #history #Humanism #humor #Kant #KarlPopper #Life #moralPhilosophy #Nietzsche #philosophy #Sartre -
French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre became the first person to decline a Nobel Prize.
Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, Sartre said he always declined official honors and that a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.
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Existentialist Musings: Freedom, Hell, and the Weight of Being
Jean-Paul Sartre's ideas on freedom and 'Hell is other people' are discussed. Learn how his philosophy affects our lives today.
#Sartre, #Existentialism, #Freedom, #Philosophy, #MeaningOfLife
https://newsletter.tf/sartre-freedom-hell-other-people-meaning/
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Jean-Paul Sartre's famous quote 'Hell is other people' is being shared again. This idea explains how we feel when others judge us.
#Sartre, #Existentialism, #Freedom, #Philosophy, #MeaningOfLife
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Ich würde den #Nihilismus vielleicht doch eher als die vorherrschende #Philosophie dieses Jahrhunderts sehen.
Das Jahrhundert der #Ohnmacht und der kompletten #Nichtigkeit.
Auch wenn ich gerne wie wir alle mehr #Sartré wagen würde, aber im Endeffekt endet es doch immer wieder im nihilistischen (Void) -
AI vs human (for the philosophically inclined)
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La violència pot ser "justificada" (per exemple, contra una opressió insuportable), però mai serà "legítima" en el sentit de crear un ordre polític estable.
Per a Arendt, el gran risc del pensament de Fanon és que l'alliberament (fer fora el colonitzador) es confongui amb la llibertat (construir una república).
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La responsabilitat de Sartre
Arendt és sovint més dura amb el pròleg de Jean-Paul Sartre que amb el mateix Fanon. Considera que Sartre eleva la violència a un nivell metafísic gairebé religiós ("matar un europeu és matar dos ocells d'un tret... queda un home mort i un home lliure").
Arendt creu que aquesta retòrica intel·lectual és irresponsable i que ignora les conseqüències reals de la sang i el terror.
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El perill de la "fraternitat en la violència"
Fanon argumenta que la violència uneix el poble contra l'enemic.
Arendt admet que la violència crea un vincle de "fraternitat", però alerta que és una fraternitat buida i efímera. La unió basada en l'odi a un enemic comú s'esvaeix tan bon punt l'enemic desapareix. Sense institucions polítiques i llibertat pública (que no depenen de la violència), el nou estat caurà inevitablement en la tirania o el caos.
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Violència com a "catarsi" o "processos biològics"
Fanon (i Sartre més) defensava que la violència té un efecte curatiu i creador d'humanitat per al colonitzat.
Arendt troba aquesta idea "animalística" i perillosa. Arendt critica que Fanon recorri a metàfores biològiques (com si la violència fos una força de la natura que regenera la vida). Per a Arendt, la política ha de basar-se en la raó i el discurs, no en impulsos vitals o instints de destrucció.
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Arendt sosté que on la violència domina absolutament, el poder desapareix. La violència pot destruir el poder (l'Estat colonial), però mai pot crear poder nou. Critica Fanon per creure que la violència "crea" una nació, quan en realitat només en destrueix una altra.
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Confusió entre "poder" i "violència"
Aquesta és la distinció més famosa d'Arendt. Per a ella, són conceptes oposats:
* El Poder: Neix de l'acció concertada, de la paraula i del consens entre persones que actuen soles. El poder és un fi en si mateix.
* La Violència: És instrumental; necessita eines (armes) i s'utilitza per obligar o destruir.
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