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sloane Swipe away curated reflections to discover Sartre's ideas on living an authentic life.
sloane Absolute Freedom
We are cast in the world and condemned to be free, And we write our own lives with no guarantee.
sloane Realizing we are entirely responsible for our choices triggers deep anxiety.
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.
sloane Sartre argued that humans are not born with a predefined purpose or blueprint.
Severe mental or physical pain or suffering. In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre argued that individuals experience this anguish when confronting the burden of choice.
What term did Jean-Paul Sartre use to describe the unchangeable facts of our lives, like where we were born?
Which part of absolute freedom scares you the most?
In what decade did Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir formulate their core existentialist ideas in Paris?
What famous phrase did Jean-Paul Sartre use in 1945 to summarize existentialism?
Which female philosopher and lifelong partner of Sartre wrote 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' in 1947?
What word did Jean-Paul Sartre use to describe the dizzying anxiety of absolute freedom?
In which famous Paris cafe did Jean-Paul Sartre spend hours writing during the 1940s?
What did Jean-Paul Sartre mean when he said humans are 'condemned to be free'?
Which famous 800-page book did Jean-Paul Sartre publish in 1943?
sloane Time your kicks past obstacles to learn how Camus found joy in a chaotic world.
sloane The soccer playing philosopher
I owe it to football Oh, I owe it to football Everything I know about right and wrong
sloane Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1930, Camus faced his own mortality early, deeply influencing his views on life's fragility.
Camus the goalie: Albert Camus' soccer career ended due to tuberculosis, but he always kept his love for the sport.
sloane Camus was a passionate soccer goalkeeper until tuberculosis cut his athletic career short at age seventeen.
A player in soccer or other sports whose chief role is to prevent the ball or puck from entering the goal. Albert Camus played this position for an Algerian youth team before contracting tuberculosis in 1930.
What Mediterranean natural element did Camus credit with teaching him about joy?
What life-threatening disease did Albert Camus contract at age seventeen?
In which year was Albert Camus awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
What sport did Albert Camus play passionately as a teenager before falling ill?
At what age did Albert Camus receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Who raised Albert Camus after his father died in World War I?
What team sport position did Albert Camus play during his youth in Algeria?
sloane Match copycat trends to learn why social media makes us all want the same things.
sloane The Spark of Imitation
I see what you like, I want it tonight, we chase the same light!
sloane We don't look directly at the object; we look at a model to decide what is valuable.
Girard's book sales: René Girard's 1961 book experienced a massive sales surge in Silicon Valley decades later because tech founders realized its lessons applied to social networks.
sloane We believe our desires are authentic, but Girard argued they are almost entirely copied from others.
The imitative representation of nature or human behavior, especially in art and literature. René Girard first identified this phenomenon in 1961 while analyzing characters in classic European novels.
What term did René Girard use to describe desires that do not come from biological needs like hunger or thirst?
Which social platform influences your style the most?
Which French novelist, author of 'The Red and the Black', did René Girard study to understand social climbing and imitation?
In what year did French philosopher René Girard publish his groundbreaking book 'Deceit, Desire, and the Novel'?
Which classic 1605 Spanish novel did René Girard use to show how characters copy their desires from role models?
In what country was the philosopher and literary critic René Girard born in 1923?
According to René Girard's triangular model of desire, what is the third element besides the subject and the object?
Which university was René Girard teaching at when he first formulated his theory of mimetic desire?
What is the main difference between biological needs and mimetic desires in René Girard's theory?
sloane Swipe the Renaissance gossip to discover the legendary rivalry between Michelangelo and Leonardo.
sloane Palazzo Vecchio's Dueling Frescoes
Two bitter rivals fighting in a giant hall / But neither finished painting on the palace wall.
Leonardo's vegetarianism: Leonardo loved animals so much that he frequently bought caged birds in Florentine markets just to set them free.