Self-Realization o Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre has presented the concepts of existence and human freedom in his book entitled Being and Nothingness. ... In Being and Nothingness, Sartre conceived humans as beings who create their own world by rebelling against authority and by accepting personal responsibility for their actions; unaided by society, traditional morality, or religious faith. ... By distinguishing between two things, you create this idea of nothingness. ... Jean-Paul Sartre dives into the pool of Being and Nothingness with very articulate and complex sentences, he tries ...

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Self-Realization o Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre has presented the concepts of existence and human freedom in his book entitled Being and Nothingness. ... In Being and Nothingness, Sartre conceived humans as beings who create their own world by rebelling against authority and by accepting personal responsibility for their actions; unaided by society, traditional morality, or religious faith. ... By distinguishing between two things, you create this idea of nothingness. ... Jean-Paul Sartre dives into the pool of Being and Nothingness with very articulate and complex sentences, he tries ...

• Word Count: 1895
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There is a line of ancestors that gave birth to existentialism in its current form, starting with the work of Soren Kierkegaard, which inspired both Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, and the post World War II work of Jean-Paul Sartre. ... It is mainly through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre that existentialism has come to the attention of a wide international audience (Kaufmann 40). ... Sartre thinks that there are two Beings in the world, the en-soi, the being that rests in itself, such as a chair, and the pour-soi, the being that is aware of itself, for example, man (Kaufmann 44). ... Angu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With this quote taken from his essay "Humanism as Existentialism", 20th century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has been able to identify major ideas and concepts and reinforce those issues he has set forth to shape the school of philosophy broadly known as "existentialism". ... Without a nature, individuals are nothingness. ... Nothingness, Sartre thought, was freedom and free will. ... The lack of a predetermined essence is the nothingness at the heart of being that drives the human to seek to define himself. ... Sartre, in holding that that human beings do not have a fixed nature ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Being an artist, Gudrun views other people as "complete". ... Comparable to Gudrun, and her carved figures Winifred obtains a feeling of power over those beings that are physically smaller than her. ... Unlike Gudrun's mindful perception of people and the world around them, Ursula appears oblivious to categorizing the nature of human beings. ... Ursula is dreamily teaching a lesson on 'catkins' only to be interrupted by the harsh mentality of Birkin, and his profound sense of being. ... Ursula, quite intrigued with Birkin, has ended up being a spectator to one of their deep, hea...

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