PP233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean-Paul Sartre, The Motto, Human Sexuality
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He presented an aim of sexual desire that is not equivalent to a strict account of biological desire. He doesn"t deny that physiology is our basis for understanding sexual desire, but thinks that human sexuality aims at something more than a physical response. We understand the world in terms of subjects and objects. Sartre characterized two modes of being: being-in-itself (objects), and being-for-itself (subjects). For sartre, objects are complete, they have the characteristic of completeness they are what they are. This is characteristic of freedom or consciousness i. e. choice and responsibility. Through these choices, we gain a self or an essence . Sartre initiated the 20th century movement of existentialism. The motto of that movement being the phrase existence precedes essence . It is an approach to reality that emphasizes appearances or experience, rather than some idea of the world as it is in itself. It is about how the world appears to us.
