Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre

Lumen, 2021

This article speaks on the philosophy of one of the greatest existentialists of 20th century, Jean Paul Sartre. His philosophy of being, phenomenological ontology, dialectics and ethics are discussed here. His ideas on authenticity, bad faith, human nature, freedom, God are also described.

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Revista Portuguesa De Filosofia, 2020

The aim of this paper is to describe the problem of God in Sartre’s philosophy. Even if Sartre has always been on the side of atheism, God has undoubtedly been a very important issue in his thought, at least during the 1940s, with the studies on the onto-phenomenology of Being and Nothingness (1943) and on the ethics of Notebooks for an Ethics (1947-48). We would like to demonstrate that Sartre, like all existentialists, had to make a bet regarding the role and the existence of God in humans’ world. This bet allowed him to think about God in a double way: the first path leads to the concept of God as the highest value of anyone, embedded in the being of everyone, of which we should get rid in order to be free; the second one brings to the hypothesis of the divinity of the mankind, i.e. of God thought as Humanity, a situation of ontological authenticity that opens the field of a true existentialist ethics. We will purpose to focus the attention of the theme of creation as the link between Sartrean ontology and his ethics: what should be a man, in order to be causa sui?

Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών, 1975

dialectique (précédé de «Questions de méthode»), Tome I: Théorie des ensembles humains (Paris: Gallimard, 1960). «Questions of Method», the opening section of the book, is the only part that has been translated into English under the title Search for a Method. H. Barnes, trans. (New York: Vintage Books, 1968). For purposes of convenience, most references to the English text are cited here as SFAM while those from the main body of the Critique are cited as CRD. 2. Eleni Mahaira-Odoni, Sartre's Contribution to the Phe nomenology of Marxism (unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, Boston University, January 1974). 3. Fiom a conference given by Sartre in Rome in 1961, pub lished only in Italian as «Soggettività e marxismo» by the phi losophical review Aut Aut, No. 136-7 (luglio-ottobre 1973), p. 157. My translation.

Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 2017

Being and Nothingness is extraordinarily rich and highly original. At its core, I argue, lies an insight into the aporetic character of intersubjectivity-«the scandal of the plurality of consciousnesses», as Sartre puts it-which emerges most clearly in his critique of Hegel's theory of intersubjectivity. My aim in this paper is to isolate this thesis of Sartre's and spell out his grounds for it. I argue furthermore that Hegel's conception of intersubjectivity corresponds to that of natural consciousness, such that, in rejecting Hegel, Sartre is also impugning the reality of a conception integral to ordinary thought. I suggest that Sartre's insight also holds the key to his distinctive approach to social and political theory in the Critique of Dialectical Reason.