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Jean-Paul Sartre · 1956
A foundational work of existentialist philosophy examining ontology through the concepts of being, nothingness, freedom, and human consciousness. Sartre's systematic philosophical treatise explores the nature of existence, bad faith, temporality, and interpersonal relations.
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What this book knows
Human consciousness is condemned to freedom, perpetually failing to coincide with itself as it pursues the impossible unity of being its own cause.
self-and-identity
Man's projects are absurd because they are directed toward an unattainable goal—the desire to become God, to be simultaneously the free For-itself and the absolute In-itself.
NEPO-RC-827Freedom will become conscious of itself and reveal itself in anguish as the unique source of value and the nothingness by which the world exists.
NEPO-RC-826shame
The decision to be in bad faith does not dare to speak its name; it believes itself innocent even at the moment of choosing self-deception.
NEPO-RC-146Bad faith is essentially irrational because it asserts two mutually contradictory principles: that one is free and that one is not free.
NEPO-RC-033desire
Value is the lack in relation to which the for-itself determines its being as a lack; by the very fact that the for-itself exists, value arises.
NEPO-RC-824The ens causa sui remains as the lacked, the indication of an impossible vertical surpassing which by its very nonexistence conditions the flat movement of consciousness.
NEPO-RC-817Illuminates
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