/lit/ - Literature

>his is Sartre’s before-death profession, according to Pierre Victor: “I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to god.”
Atheistbros?

>Hi lit. I'm an autistic fedora tipper. Can you prove god exists? Bet you can'tt!
>Hi lit. I'm an autistic pol tard. Can you prove god does not exist? Bet you can't!
>Hi lit. I don't like x. x is indeed bad [no justification whatsoever attached]. Can you prove x is good? Bet you can't!
>Hi lit. I like x. x is indeed god [no justification whastoever attached]. Can you prove x is bad? Bet you can't!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

These threads should be banned. They contribute nothing and are even worse than theology LARPing threads. Don't be fooled into answering them, or you'll get eyes like Sartre

>>15583817
If Sartre could have sex, anyone can.

lookout

What's so bad about essentialist metaphysics?

How do I de-nazify myself?

I'm reading Sartre and it's only making me madder.

>not acknowledging the inherent absurdity of the universe
>actually accepting metaphysical construct that essence precedes existence
>deterministic view toward choice
>seriously objecting to the inevitability of our radical free will

MFW

>>8490817
Since when did humans do anything but merely exist?

>Y-you can't kill yourself! THATS CHEATING

I don't understand Sartre myself. I mean he puts forward this idea of subjective meaning. But isn't something which we call "meaning" supposed to first and foremost be objective? So yes personal meaning might be objective within the context of the self (ie practical meaning) but "subjective meaning" is an oxymoron and a condition of it is logically incoherent. Am I wrong?

>>7841392
>exciting chapter
>turn the page
>a page and a half left of the chapter, your eyes drawn to the last few lines.
>mfw when I try not to read ahead.

What are his best or most important books?

/lit/, do you think that existentialism was more influential in the fall of modernism or the rise of post modernism?

>>6837877
but what a classy one

Precisely how does Sartre come to the conclusion that "existence precedes essence"?

It's not just because there is no God, right? He has some elaborate, phenomenological excuse?

>>6542509
There is no "why." Learn to cope and succeed in a world where there is no meaning or point to anything.

>>6451070
Yes. It would get read, no? The question I ponder is whether the severity is worth the determination. I would have to use a tormail as my contact info though, now that I am thinking this through.

>>6451075
be mad.

Yo /lit/, I've decided to start learning french so that I can read French Literature as it was intended to be read, But I was wondering if you guys had any advice on learning a language?

I have Pimsleur and Michel Thomas learning software to begin with.

Philosophy is hugely significant if you want understand the substrate of a culture; that is, the psychology of a particular high and low culture. So, it would be futile for example to "start with the Greeks" if you don't appreciate first their cults (low culture) and philosophy (high culture). Replace "the Greeks" with any culture you want to understand and there you go.

>>6240573
I honestly wonder what it would be like to have his vision. Motherfucker is like a chameleon

>>6225933
>the small of her back

Is there a bigger cliche?

I know of this guy more as a philosopher. Is his fiction compelling?

Is Francophilia a form of mental illness? Easily the most shit first world country. Their culture is a joke. Their national character is renowned worldwide for cowardice and their inability to be sincere. They've never been the cradle of civilisation:

Greece
Rome
[dark ages]
Italy
England
Netherlands
England/Scotland
Germany
Britain
America

The only good thing about France is its embrace of Jerry Lewis, but even that does little to rectify the toxicity of their culture. As Fichte says, it is no shock that such a pathetic people recognise a mediocre didactic poem in comedy form on the subject of hypocrisy as their greatest philosophical work.

What is the deal with Sartre? Why do you guys seem to dislike him so much?