| | *[http://withalliamgod.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/the-meaningless-life-of-atheism/ The Meaningless Life Of Atheism] by Daniel Prayson, 2010</ref> Sartre is the only person to win and decline the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], in 1964, and ironically the only other person who ever declined a [[Nobel Prize]] was also a [[communist]].<ref>https://www.britannica.com/list/7-nobel-prize-scandals?utm_medium=mendel-homepage&utm_source=oyr&utm_campaign=oyr-3&utm_term=20211006</ref> | | *[http://withalliamgod.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/the-meaningless-life-of-atheism/ The Meaningless Life Of Atheism] by Daniel Prayson, 2010</ref> Sartre is the only person to win and decline the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], in 1964, and ironically the only other person who ever declined a [[Nobel Prize]] was also a [[communist]].<ref>https://www.britannica.com/list/7-nobel-prize-scandals?utm_medium=mendel-homepage&utm_source=oyr&utm_campaign=oyr-3&utm_term=20211006</ref> |
| − | He implies in his 1946 philosophical tract "Existentialism is a Humanism" that his philosophy was rooted ultimately in Dostoevsky's dictum of "If God doesn't exist, then everything is permitted" (which referred to the events of the Russian Nihilist movement), in particular trying to actually make everything permitted. His philosophy was also considered subversive enough that [[J. Edgar Hoover]], the head of the FBI at the time, ended up spying on both Sartre himself and his associate [[Albert Camus]] to see if they had any ties to the Communist Party as well as whether they were planning any subversive actions in society.<ref>http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/camus-sartre-fbi-hoover</ref> Sartre was also known to misdefine "[[violence]]" to essentially mean "any social position [Sartre] doesn't like," which Thomas Sowell indicated was so he'd have an excuse to condone if not instigate actual violence, essentially making him responsible for [[microaggression]]s and thus promoting [[cancel culture]].<ref>https://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jun/16/micro-aggression-efforts-silence-dissenters/</ref> | + | He implies in his 1946 philosophical tract "Existentialism is a Humanism" that his philosophy was rooted ultimately in Dostoevsky's dictum of "If God doesn't exist, then everything is permitted" (which referred to the events of the Russian Nihilist movement), in particular trying to actually make everything permitted.<ref>''Existentialism Is a Humanism''<br />The existentialist is strongly opposed to a certain type of secular moralism which seeks to suppress God at the least possibe expense.... The existentialist ... finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good ''a priori'', since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. It is nowhere written that "the good" exists, that one must be honest or must not lie, since we are now upon the plane where there are only men. Dostoevsky once wrote: "If God did not exist, everything would be permitted"; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist.</ref> His philosophy was also considered subversive enough that [[J. Edgar Hoover]], the head of the FBI at the time, ended up spying on both Sartre himself and his associate [[Albert Camus]] to see if they had any ties to the Communist Party as well as whether they were planning any subversive actions in society.<ref>http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/camus-sartre-fbi-hoover</ref> Sartre was also known to misdefine "[[violence]]" to essentially mean "any social position [Sartre] doesn't like," which Thomas Sowell indicated was so he'd have an excuse to condone if not instigate actual violence, essentially making him responsible for [[microaggression]]s and thus promoting [[cancel culture]].<ref>https://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jun/16/micro-aggression-efforts-silence-dissenters/</ref> |
| | As a [[communist]], Sartre 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.<ref name="nybooks4">{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1975/aug/07/sartre-at-seventy-an-interview/?page=4 |title=Sartre at Seventy: An Interview by Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Contat |work=The New York Review of Books |date=7 August 1975 |accessdate=31 May 2017|archivelink=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101050245/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/08/07/sartre-at-seventy-an-interview/}}</ref><ref name="raforum1">{{cite web|url=http://raforum.info/spip.php?article92 |title=R.A. Forum > Sartre par lui-même (Sartre by Himself) |publisher=Raforum.info |date=28 September 1966 |accessdate=31 May 2017 |archivelink=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202203851/http://raforum.info/spip.php?article92}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated21">"Interview with Jean-Paul Sartre" in ''The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre'', ed. P. A. Schilpp, p. 21.</ref> During his time as a Soviet supporter, he proceeded to write a little known book advocating for solidarity for the imprisoned Henri Martin after refusing to participate in the Indo-China War, called the ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>L'Affaire Henri Martin'' in 1953, and also infamously accused the old-fashioned parliamentary conservative Prime Minister Antoine Pinay of setting up a dictatorship.<ref>''Liberation'', 16 October 1952</ref> | | As a [[communist]], Sartre 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.<ref name="nybooks4">{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1975/aug/07/sartre-at-seventy-an-interview/?page=4 |title=Sartre at Seventy: An Interview by Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Contat |work=The New York Review of Books |date=7 August 1975 |accessdate=31 May 2017|archivelink=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101050245/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/08/07/sartre-at-seventy-an-interview/}}</ref><ref name="raforum1">{{cite web|url=http://raforum.info/spip.php?article92 |title=R.A. Forum > Sartre par lui-même (Sartre by Himself) |publisher=Raforum.info |date=28 September 1966 |accessdate=31 May 2017 |archivelink=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202203851/http://raforum.info/spip.php?article92}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated21">"Interview with Jean-Paul Sartre" in ''The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre'', ed. P. A. Schilpp, p. 21.</ref> During his time as a Soviet supporter, he proceeded to write a little known book advocating for solidarity for the imprisoned Henri Martin after refusing to participate in the Indo-China War, called the ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>L'Affaire Henri Martin'' in 1953, and also infamously accused the old-fashioned parliamentary conservative Prime Minister Antoine Pinay of setting up a dictatorship.<ref>''Liberation'', 16 October 1952</ref> |