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What phrase did Sartre use to summarize existentialism?

Sartre on freedom and bad faith

Chapter 1

The weight of absolute freedom

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Chapter 2

Playing roles and bad faith

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Chapter 3

Authenticity in the digital age

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Master of Sartre on freedom and bad faith

Ch 1 · The weight of absolute freedom
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sloane The Parisian cafe where existentialism was born

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sloane The easy trap of finding excuses

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sloane Why absolute freedom causes us anguish

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sloane What existence precedes essence actually means

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Simone's Mirror

sloane Swipe away curated reflections to discover Sartre's ideas on living an authentic life.

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sloane Absolute Freedom

We are cast in the world and condemned to be free, And we write our own lives with no guarantee.

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Why absolute freedom causes us anguish

sloane Realizing we are entirely responsible for our choices triggers deep anxiety.

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Fun Fact

Sartre's Nobel Prize: In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre became the first person to voluntarily decline the Nobel Prize in Literature, arguing that a writer must remain independent of institutions.

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What existence precedes essence actually means

sloane Sartre argued that humans are not born with a predefined purpose or blueprint.

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Glossary
anguish (noun)
Severe mental or physical pain or suffering. In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre argued that individuals experience this anguish when confronting the burden of choice.

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What term did Jean-Paul Sartre use to describe the unchangeable facts of our lives, like where we were born?

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Gossip

Which part of absolute freedom scares you the most?

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In what decade did Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir formulate their core existentialist ideas in Paris?

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What famous phrase did Jean-Paul Sartre use in 1945 to summarize existentialism?

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Which female philosopher and lifelong partner of Sartre wrote 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' in 1947?

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What word did Jean-Paul Sartre use to describe the dizzying anxiety of absolute freedom?

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In which famous Paris cafe did Jean-Paul Sartre spend hours writing during the 1940s?

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What did Jean-Paul Sartre mean when he said humans are 'condemned to be free'?

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Which famous 800-page book did Jean-Paul Sartre publish in 1943?

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