Philosophy 2557F/G- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Was an important movement in france after ww2: people living through war, how do we make sense of life. Satre = philosopher, born 1905-1980: founded a marxist journal, loyal of soviet union. Evident racism: part of colonizing euro milieu. 2nd half: situation, how we judge people, consider time period in which he was writing, context of situation. What does it mean to exist according to satre: cant way who a human is before, cant say that existence comes before essence. Is via what they do/how they live their lives. Paper knife make it, you know what it is in advance: not what it is for humans. Essence is not set in advance for humans atheist god does not exist: no one comes before us, not one can set out who we are in advance. Going out into the world interiority: vs. going beyond transcend.
