Jean-Paul Sartre By: Piper Brown, Ryan Elrod, Casey Gunn, Kayla Marshall, and Nicholas White

Biographical Information Born in Paris, France, June 21, 1905 Studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1924 to 1929 Became Professor of Philosophy at Le Havre in 1931. With the help of a stipend from the Institut Français he studied in Berlin (1932) Here he studied the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. After teaching at Le Havre, and in Laon, he taught at the Lycée Pasteur in Paris from 1937 to 1939. After the second war he decided to become an independent writer 1964 he turned down the Nobel Prize (Stipend :a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or allowance)

Spiritual history/Point-of-view Atheist Was in the French Resistance when the Nazis took control of his country He tried to apply his philosophy to real life and due to his actions he was captured by the Nazis. He was sent to a war camp as a prisoner there he read Martin Heidegger and he incorporated those ideas in his thoughts. Due to his experiences with the Nazis, Sartre remained a Marxist. Although he never became apart of the communist party, and he eventually rejected the idea all together. Jean Paul is largely responsible for the wearing of black, drinking coffee black, and the smoking of cigarettes.

Ethical Point-of-view Sartre was a moralist. Most famous ethical position is existentialist ethics, that focuses on authenticity and disalienation. Being authentic is when we are responsible for our egos like we are responsible for anything else. Emphasized oppression over exploitation, and individual moral responsibility over structural causation. His concept of authenticity:the uncertainty of human life “is what it is not” (future) and “is not what it is” (past) Believed freedom is used to make any choice, so we make the choice of changing or remaining the same “You can always make something of what you’ve been made into.” (Situations 9:101)

Influence other philosophers had Jean-Paul Sartre was influenced by Henri Bergson after reading his essay “Time and Free Will” when he was just a young man inspiring Sartre to become a philosopher. Immanuel Kant inspired Sartre for he wanted to complete Kant’s dream work a famous triad, but Sartre felt as if he needed to add some Hegelian-Marxist dialectic as well as some psychoanalysis consisting the responsibilities of individuals with a class relationship that adds a dimension of existentialist for a more moral responsibility. From the ideas of Edmund Husserl of phenomenology in his methodology and from the studying of his philosophies while studying at the French university in Berlin. Interested in the philosophies after reading “Being and Time” written by Martin Heidegger Sartre studied these along with Edmund Husserl philosophies in Berlin as a student at the time. Before the writings of “Phenomenology of Spirit”by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel the writing as well as lectures from Alexandre Kojève which influenced Sartre for it made it where you could not understand French Philosophers like Sartre.

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