![]() ![]() Sartre proposes that the only clear choice is to live authentically, to make decisions for oneself based upon one’s own values and ideas independent of accepted tradition and societal moral values. Humans are handed an inheritance of struggle: They are faced with trying to make sense of a senseless world, to muddle through life, which offers them an abundance of freedom and no clear roadmap for what actions to take. He challenged the idea that humans are endowed with an essence at birth and argued that the world is suspended in meaninglessness. In Being and Nothingness, named in honor of Heidegger’s work, Sartre outlined the foundational principles of existentialism. Sartre had read Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time and was excited by the early existentialist ideas presented there. ![]() ![]() This guide uses the 2018 edition by the Washington Square Press, translated by Sarah Richmond.įrench philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre penned Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology in 1941 while a prisoner in a Nazi war camp. ![]()
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