PHL 366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Simone De Beauvoir, Externality, Jean-Paul Sartre
24 Oct 2018
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Everything we work for in our lives just leads up to death. Man knows and thinks about this, while other living things do not. Man is a rational animal; he escapes his natural condition without freeing himself from it. Man is a part of the world of which he is a consciousness. At any moment, he can become aware of his truth of existence. Between the future which is not yet, and the past which is no longer, this moment when he exists is nothing. Nothing more than an individual in the collectivity he depends on. Everyone who has lived has felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition. Those who have accepted the dualism have established a hierarchy between body and soul which permits of considering an unimportant part of the self which cannot be saved. Denied death by integrating it with life or by promising to man immortality.
