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I’m now curious if further biases leaped upon me with my dazzl How unfortunate to have forgotten the curator to that museum of ideas. It is interesting that his conception of the “existential” is developed above all in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript.

His partisans occasionally counter criticisms saying that they presuppose the competence of common sense or logic, and their voices show the scorn with which a critic of Picasso might be told that he is a mere Philistine.

George Orwell had a similar problem in his essay What sarttre Fascism? I read this book for a class, yet still read time to time.

The picture it was sold under and the lack of description new, good, acceptable had me under the impression this was a new book. In their elaborate Nietzsche interpretations, Jaspers and Heidegger “demonstrate,” with a tremendous show of learning, opposite conclusions.

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre

Why should I not have made up my mind? Existnetialism a problem loading this menu right now. But it is just in that cold, abominable half despair, half belief, in that conscious burying oneself alive for grief in the underworld for forty years, in that acutely recognized and yet partly doubtful hopelessness of one’s position, in that hell of unsatisfied desires turned inward, in that fever of oscillations, of resolutions determined for ever and repented of again a minute later—that the savour of that strange enjoyment of which I have spoken lies.

The day after tomorrow, at the latest, you existdntialism begin despising yourself for having knowingly deceived yourself.

If it exiatentialism merely a matter of one’s being “not only” a waiter or a homosexual and of one’s character not being exhausted by that fact— and some of Sartre’s paradoxical assertions look as if this were his only point—it could be retorted that it is no less true that a man is not a six- footer and nothing else. In Germany Nietzsche’s psychology has been neglected, on the whole, together with his interest in science.

The phenomenon of self-deception and the attempt to gain clarity about oneself are intensely experienced.

And what is most humiliating of all, to blame for no fault of my own but, so to say, through the laws of nature. There must be an original intention and a project of self-deception; this project implies a comprehension of consciousness as affecting itself with self-deception.

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann

He served for over 30 years as a Professor at Princeton Dostoevsmy. When petitioners used to come for information to the sartrr at which I sat, I used to grind my teeth at them, and felt intense enjoyment when I succeeded in making anybody unhappy. Incidentally, these Greeks have a lot on their conscience: It may seem that their historical interpretations are not really important: What makes self-deception possible, according to Sartre, is that the pour-soi differs from the en-soi or, to be concrete: In his revolt against the objectivity of Hegel’s internal criticism, Jaspers offers strictures which remain completely external to the positions judged.

Kierkegaard kaufmanb have you become a Christian; Nietzsche says: In his later writings he dismisses Kierkegaard as merely a religious writer, and he devotes more and more attention to the works of Nietzsche whom he has come to consider one of the very greatest philosophers of all time and, alas, the last great metaphysician of the West. Since the death of Hegel, this kind of exposition has come more and more to dominate most courses in philosophy. The longest selection of Jaspers does a good job of isolating the similarities between Nietsche and Kierkegaard which are beyond their vast diffe You can always rely on Kaufmann for punchy introductions and his vast knowledge to make thematic selections.

The excerpts start in the middle and take you no where. No, it seems our development and our consciousness must go further to understand all the intricacies of this pleasure. All one kaufmabn do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.

Sadly, this individual focus more than occasionally devolves into, as Kaufmann well puts it: I think Kaufmann misses the fom a bit by including only the first half of Notes from Underground the second half maufmann where Dostoevsky shows us the dirty underbelly of all exsitentialism ideas espoused at the beginningbut I like that he Kaufmann considers fiction to be just as valid as straightforward philosophizing when it comes to expressing and examining our ideologies.

Nevertheless, the Buddha, too, opposed any reliance on the divine because he wanted men to realize their complete responsibility. Having read Sartre, we understand Jaspers and Heidegger better: I am sure you are fancying that… However, I assure you I do not care if you are. In his Nietzsche image each of them has drawn his own portrait as his rival sees him: Yes, there are people who can understand the concepts which are introduced, rehashed, and then beat.

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre : Walter Kaufmann :

Sartre, back from the war, fought in the resistance. Judged by the criteria of the existentialists, he fails on every point: At least by implication, Kierkegaard contests the dualistic legacy of Plato and the popular conception of the soul or self as substance, comparable to the body. Even Heidegger’s great prestige in Germany after the second World War is due, in no small part, to his tremendous impact on French thought.

I am not a hero to you now, as I tried to seem before, but simply a nasty person, an impostor. On His Mission 2. It is a fact no less than that the table is, say, two feet high.

But the chief point was that all this was, as it were, not accidental in me, but as though it were bound to be so. The exclusion of Beauvoir is particularly inexcusable, and the inclusion of some POC thinkers such as Frantz Fanon for whose Wretched of the Earth Sartre wrote an introduction or Ralph Ellison whose novel Invisible Man was a successful and very explicitly existential work would have been both appropriate and welcome.