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'''Jean-Paul Sartre''' (1905-1980) was one of several popularizers of the [[philosophy]] of [[existentialism]]. Sartre's version of existentialism (different in minor components from those of his contemporaries, and modern existentialists) taught (consistent with his [[atheism]]) that life has no external meaning at all and that the moral obligation of every person was to find or define the meaning of their own life (lest life be altogether meaningless).<ref>''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/#4]</ref> The term 'existentialism' itself was popularized by many other individuals, but resisted by Sartre himself. Sartre was also a Communist, and was known to be in bed with the KGB.<ref name="Who was the Real Che?">http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33786</ref> He was also responsible for the claim that the executed Bolivian Marxist revolutionary/terrorist, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, was "the most complete human being of our time," as well as ensuring that French communist/terrorist and fellow member of Guevara's cadre, Régis Debray, was released from his prison sentence 27 years early (having earlier been sentenced to thirty years in prison).<ref name="Who was the Real Che?" />
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'''Jean-Paul Sartre''' (1905-1980) was one of several popularizers of the [[philosophy]] of [[existentialism]]. Sartre's version of existentialism (different in minor components from those of his contemporaries, and modern existentialists) taught (consistent with his [[atheism]]) that life has no external meaning at all and that the moral obligation of every person was to find or define subjective meaning of their own life (lest life be [[Atheism and meaninglessness|altogether meaningless]]).<ref>''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/#4]</ref> Sartre did not solve the issue of the absence of objective meaning under an [[atheist worldview]] (see: [[Atheism and meaninglessness]]).<ref>
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*[http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/can-life-have-meaning-without-god Can Life Have Meaning Without God?] by James Anderson
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*[http://jwwartick.com/2011/01/03/atheism-meaningless/ Atheism’s Universe is Meaningless and Valueless] by  J.W. Wartick,  January 3, 2011
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*[http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/can-atheists-have-meaning-and-purpose-in-life/ Can atheists have meaning and purpose in life?]
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*[http://www.bethinking.org/atheism/reclaiming-reason-from-atheism Why atheism] by Katie Galloway, 2014
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*[http://aviewfromtheright.com/2012/04/19/heat-death-and-atheist-inconsistency-or-isnt-it-ironic/ Heat Death and Atheist Inconsistency (or, Isn’t It Ironic?)]
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*[http://www.oocities.org/athens/delphi/8449/atheism.html Atheism and Death: Why the atheist must face death with despair] By Dustin Shramek
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*[http://pleaseconvinceme.com/2013/apathy-atheism-and-the-absurdity-of-life-without-god/ Apathy, Atheism, and the Absurdity of Life Without God] by Aaron Brake
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*[http://withalliamgod.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/the-meaningless-life-of-atheism/ The Meaningless Life Of Atheism] by Daniel Prayson, 2010</ref>
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The term 'existentialism' itself was popularized by many other individuals, but resisted by Sartre himself. Sartre was also a Communist, and was known to be in bed with the KGB,<ref name="Who was the Real Che?">http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33786</ref> although he himself viewed his motives and beliefs as closer to anarchism. He was also responsible for the claim that the executed Bolivian Marxist revolutionary/terrorist, [[Che Guevara|Ernesto "Che" Guevara]], was "the most complete human being of our time," as well as ensuring that French communist/terrorist and fellow member of Guevara's cadre, Régis Debray, was released from his prison sentence 27 years early (having earlier been sentenced to thirty years in prison). He also promoted the [[Baader-Meinhof Gang]].<ref name="Who was the Real Che?" /> In addition, he also gave advice to the Algerian [[Frantz Fanon]] during the Algerian War for Independence, and wrote in his preface to Fanon's 1961 book ''Les Damnes de la terre'' ("The Wretched of the Earth") that for a Black man "to shoot down an European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time.", which had been an update of Existentialism to include self-liberation through murder. He also implied that "for [Sartre], the ''essential problem'' is to reject the theory according to which the left ought not to answer violence with violence."<ref>Interview in ''France-Observateur'', 1 February 1962.</ref> This also led him to be responsible for the various terrorist acts in Africa during the 1960s to the present, including the genocidal policies of Africans onto other Africans. Similarly, he also had an influence on the Cambodian Revolution and the [[Khmer Rouge]]'s reign of terror, especially the crimes conducted by the Khmer Rouge's ruling class, the Angka Leu ("The Higher Organization), all of whom studied under Sartre as Communist Party members during the 1950s.
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[[File:Beauvoir Sartre - Che Guevara -1960 - Cuba.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Jean-Paul Sartre in [[Cuba]].]]
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He also spent a lot of his time seducing several females into having sex with him, betraying [[Simone de Beauvoir]] constantly. Each time he got older, his females got younger in age. His practices were well known enough that Robert Francis, during a hostile criticism of ''Huis clos'', wrote "We all know Monsieur Sartre. He is an odd philosophy teacher who has specialized in the study of his students' underwear."<ref>Quoted in Cohen-Solal, p. 213</ref>
  
 
Sartre published a number of philosophical works including:
 
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In fact, Sartre’s writing was so well received that, in 1964, he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] for literature, which he declined.<ref>List of Nobel Prize laureates for litrature[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/]</ref>
 
In fact, Sartre’s writing was so well received that, in 1964, he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] for literature, which he declined.<ref>List of Nobel Prize laureates for litrature[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/]</ref>
  
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Sartre fought in the [[French]] resistance in [[World War II]] and worked on an underground French paper of the time.
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Sartre fought in the [[French]] resistance in [[World War II]] for a brief period and worked on an underground French paper of the time. However, his activities were only very brief, and otherwise did his own actions during that time, including several plays. After France was Liberated, Sartre mentioned that France had been "more free" under Nazi control.<ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3998943.ece</ref>
 
   
 
   
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Towards the end of his life he expressed sympathy with the [[terrorists]] who kidnapped and killed Israelis during the 1972 [[Olympics]], asserting that it was “perfectly scandalous” how the French press criticized the terrorism. He described terrorism as “a terrible weapon, but the oppressed poor have no others”.
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Towards the end of his life he expressed sympathy with the [[terrorists]] who kidnapped and killed Israelis during the 1972 [[Olympics]], asserting that it was “perfectly scandalous” how the French press criticized the terrorism. He described terrorism as “a terrible weapon, but the oppressed poor have no others”. He also implied while defending the terrorists' actions during the Munich Olympics that he felt that the [[Jacobins|Jacobin Club]] during their [[Reign of Terror]] during the [[French Revolution]] didn't kill enough people.<ref>http://www.hoover.org/research/absolute-intellectual<br />“A revolutionary regime must get rid of a certain number of individuals that threaten it and I see no other means for this than death; it is always possible to get out of a prison; the revolutionaries of 1793 probably didn’t kill enough people,” he [Sartre] said.</ref>
  
 
He died on April 15, 1980 in [[Paris]], [[France]].
 
He died on April 15, 1980 in [[Paris]], [[France]].
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== Jean-Paul Sartre's doubts about atheism ==
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''See also:'' [[Atheists doubting the validity of atheism]] and [[Denials that atheists exist]] and [[Atheism, agnosticism and flip-flopping]]
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[[Jean-Paul Sartre]] was one of the leading proponents of atheism of the 20th Century.
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Yet Jean-Paul Sartre made this candid confession:
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{{cquote|As for me, I don’t see myself as so much dust that has appeared in the world but as a being that was expected, prefigured, called forth. In short, as a being that could, it seems, come only from a creator; and this idea of a creating hand that created me refers me back to God. Naturally this is not a clear, exact idea that I set in motion every time I think of myself. It contradicts many of my other ideas; but it is there, floating vaguely. And when I think of myself I ''often'' think rather in this way, for want of ''being able to think otherwise'' [emphasis added].<ref>[http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/apologetics/AP0702W4.htm Is Christianity Alone Fully True and is Jesus Christ Really the Only Way To God? -- Part 4]</ref>}}
  
 
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Jean Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was one of several popularizers of the philosophy of existentialism. Sartre's version of existentialism (different in minor components from those of his contemporaries, and modern existentialists) taught (consistent with his atheism) that life has no external meaning at all and that the moral obligation of every person was to find or define subjective meaning of their own life (lest life be altogether meaningless).[1] Sartre did not solve the issue of the absence of objective meaning under an atheist worldview (see: Atheism and meaninglessness).[2]

The term 'existentialism' itself was popularized by many other individuals, but resisted by Sartre himself. Sartre was also a Communist, and was known to be in bed with the KGB,[3] although he himself viewed his motives and beliefs as closer to anarchism. He was also responsible for the claim that the executed Bolivian Marxist revolutionary/terrorist, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, was "the most complete human being of our time," as well as ensuring that French communist/terrorist and fellow member of Guevara's cadre, Régis Debray, was released from his prison sentence 27 years early (having earlier been sentenced to thirty years in prison). He also promoted the Baader-Meinhof Gang.[3] In addition, he also gave advice to the Algerian Frantz Fanon during the Algerian War for Independence, and wrote in his preface to Fanon's 1961 book Les Damnes de la terre ("The Wretched of the Earth") that for a Black man "to shoot down an European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time.", which had been an update of Existentialism to include self-liberation through murder. He also implied that "for [Sartre], the essential problem is to reject the theory according to which the left ought not to answer violence with violence."[4] This also led him to be responsible for the various terrorist acts in Africa during the 1960s to the present, including the genocidal policies of Africans onto other Africans. Similarly, he also had an influence on the Cambodian Revolution and the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror, especially the crimes conducted by the Khmer Rouge's ruling class, the Angka Leu ("The Higher Organization), all of whom studied under Sartre as Communist Party members during the 1950s.

Jean-Paul Sartre in Cuba.

He also spent a lot of his time seducing several females into having sex with him, betraying Simone de Beauvoir constantly. Each time he got older, his females got younger in age. His practices were well known enough that Robert Francis, during a hostile criticism of Huis clos, wrote "We all know Monsieur Sartre. He is an odd philosophy teacher who has specialized in the study of his students' underwear."[5]

Sartre published a number of philosophical works including:

Sartre also wrote a number of works of fiction based on his philosophical ideas, these include:

In fact, Sartre’s writing was so well received that, in 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, which he declined.[6]

Sartre fought in the French resistance in World War II for a brief period and worked on an underground French paper of the time. However, his activities were only very brief, and otherwise did his own actions during that time, including several plays. After France was Liberated, Sartre mentioned that France had been "more free" under Nazi control.[7]

Towards the end of his life he expressed sympathy with the terrorists who kidnapped and killed Israelis during the 1972 Olympics, asserting that it was “perfectly scandalous” how the French press criticized the terrorism. He described terrorism as “a terrible weapon, but the oppressed poor have no others”. He also implied while defending the terrorists' actions during the Munich Olympics that he felt that the Jacobin Club during their Reign of Terror during the French Revolution didn't kill enough people.[8]

He died on April 15, 1980 in Paris, France.

Jean-Paul Sartre's doubts about atheism

See also: Atheists doubting the validity of atheism and Denials that atheists exist and Atheism, agnosticism and flip-flopping

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the leading proponents of atheism of the 20th Century.

Yet Jean-Paul Sartre made this candid confession:

“ As for me, I don’t see myself as so much dust that has appeared in the world but as a being that was expected, prefigured, called forth. In short, as a being that could, it seems, come only from a creator; and this idea of a creating hand that created me refers me back to God. Naturally this is not a clear, exact idea that I set in motion every time I think of myself. It contradicts many of my other ideas; but it is there, floating vaguely. And when I think of myself I often think rather in this way, for want of being able to think otherwise [emphasis added].[9] ”

Reference

  1. ↑ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[1]
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33786
  4. ↑ Interview in France-Observateur, 1 February 1962.
  5. ↑ Quoted in Cohen-Solal, p. 213
  6. ↑ List of Nobel Prize laureates for litrature[2]
  7. ↑ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3998943.ece
  8. ↑ http://www.hoover.org/research/absolute-intellectual
    “A revolutionary regime must get rid of a certain number of individuals that threaten it and I see no other means for this than death; it is always possible to get out of a prison; the revolutionaries of 1793 probably didn’t kill enough people,” he [Sartre] said.
  9. ↑ Is Christianity Alone Fully True and is Jesus Christ Really the Only Way To God? -- Part 4

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