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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Feb 2 23:51:17 2019, in response to Re: My latest allocution, posted by bingbong on Sat Feb 2 22:57:28 2019. Bingbong -re: your first sentence - It's nice and simple and summarizes well.- have you read any Sartre or other existentialist material? I'm changing the subject here [not relating it to the subject content of previous postings] and asking this question seriously - don't mean to sound pretentious or jokey. I've gotten the basic existentialist message (if I'm understanding it correctly) just by reading various articles - reading original Sartre / philsophy can be difficult to understand. IIRC, as I understand it, he arrived at his basic existentialst message (the one that's summarized in articles etc. for the rest of us) after seeing the collapse of French society in mid 1940 - and its subsequent instability due to the shock of defeat. Whom can you trust? Anyone? Who remains true to basic human priciples? Who is collaborating? Can you tell? I think that's when he began writing about each individual being responsible for their morality by his/her own actions. His ideas are more accessible in the trilogy of novels he wrote about that period, the 1st one set in 1938, around the Munich debacle. I started the first (good stuff, but slow to read - you're thinking about every sentence), but it since has been packed away due to everyday life stuff intervening... (there's also a 4th novel - incomplete that was published and I think is out of print) Anyone else's comments - to add to, or correct what I've written above are welcomed. Not my intent to hijack this thread - just responding to this post. Others in this thread's original discussion, you can just bypass this post. |
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