SOCI 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Protestantism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Spiritual Crisis
13 Nov 2017
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Sartre argues that there is always a tension in the self, a tension in the objective side and the subjective side of human beings. Sartre thinks that one of the difficulties of human beings is that we try to overcome this tension. We want the permanency of an object but the freedom of the subject. Sartre refers to man as a useless passion, because he tries to be god and can never succeed in doing so. Sartre argues that human beings must be humble and we have to accept that we are not perfect. This concept of ourselves is absurd, tragic and guilt ridden. The idea that existentialism must be lived and not studied for existentialists man has no inherent nature. Life has to be lived and not just pondered. We can talk about the self as an ongoing development, an ongoing project. Heidegger argues that we have a deep awareness of the possibility of dying.
