Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism
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The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was a crucial figure in Existentialism. Although his work may seem dauntingly incomprehensible at first glance, this video from The School of Life makes Sartre's ideas--about the absurdity of the world, humans' freedom of choice, and the fluidity of our supposedly rigid roles and institutions--shockingly understandable.
Do you find Sartre's "admission that life doesn't have some pre-ordained logic and is not inherently meaningful" to be inspiring, depressing, or neither? Do you agree that "things don't have to be the way they are?"
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