Posted on 06/21/2005 6:24:10 PM PDT by Loyalist
What better way to honour the philosopher of nothingness than to think nothing of him?
Sartre's philosophy builds nothing, inspires no one, but leaves a vacuum wherever it goes. It has left one in France's intellectual and cultural life, which radical Islam is now filling.
Men will not believe in nothing forever.
Another dead frog. Pity.
We had this quack rammed down our throats in college. He is the reason I lost interest in philosophy. What a boor.
Sounds very, very French.
"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Yep. I was there last week. All was fine until a bunch a middle aged Californians in shorts started snapping pictures and talking loud.
C'est absurd!
Didn't they all? That's why the Heinies had such a difficult time controlling the country between June 1940 until it was finally liberated by the 2d French Armored division in August 1944. Oh, and I forgot the Red Army - they helped too. /s
"We had this quack rammed down our throats in college. He is the reason I lost interest in philosophy. What a boor."
Yeah - Thank God we had Nietszche in the same course, too - tho he really is'nt a nihilist like Sartre.
FYI - Nihilist is the name the commies had before they were commies.
Darn. Old-style pornographs are so hard to bring along to parties, too.
Sartre was born in Paris in 1905 to naval officer Jean-Baptiste Sartre and Anne-Marie Schweitzer, a cousin of medical missionary Albert Schweitzer. His father died while he was a toddler and he was raised by his mother and grandfather, who introduced him to classical literature.[emphasis added]
The French are sexually precocious, fathering children even while they are toddlers. It also explains why the French navy has not done much, with toddlers comprising most of the officer corps.
I'm still trying to figure out the closing remarks of the article: "Sartre can be used to decode the sickness that France is living today," said Annie Cohen-Solal, author of a best-selling Sartre biography, referring to the atmosphere since the country voted to reject the European Union constitution last month. "He plays the role of revealing the identity crisis," she said.
I suppose this refers to the discovery of the essential NON of French existence by the average citizens, or perhaps the rejection of the elite existential NON that is the EuroConstitution?
OTOH, Roman Polanski is treated like a human being. How strange.
My mother made me read Sarte and Simone De Beauvoir when I was a teenager. She thought it would make me "intellectual" but the only message that I got was, what miserable, angry, bitter, depressed stupid turds these atheist liberals are.
"To do is to be."<-- Nietzsche "To be is to do."<-- Sartre "Do be do be do."<-- Sinatra
Another tired old socialist ninny fades into oblivion. The man who talked about the worth of nothing becomes worth ... nothing.
"I think philosopher in general is an all encompassing word for commie"
Well Nietszche talking about herd mentality is not very communal.
"He is treated like a pornographer."
Yeah but open a book of pornography by Sartre, and you will see...nothing! Rien!
"Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal." --Jean-Paul Sartre
Huh?
ah, nothingness, the essence of french thought incarnate...
He no longer thinks, therefore he ain't.
Every now and then, there is a little shred of justice in this world. The decline of Sartre's reputation is a case in point.
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