Sartre and Freedom
Sartre: A Philosopher of Freedom After the previous articles on Sartre’s ethics, his quotes, a synthesis of his philosophy and a review of the…
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Sartre: A Philosopher of Freedom After the previous articles on Sartre’s ethics, his quotes, a synthesis of his philosophy and a review of the…
The Fall by Camus explores the theme of guilt: the thesis of this philosophical novel in one sentence: we are all responsible for everything….
Voltaire (also known as Francois-Marie Arouet) is one of the most famous enlightenment philosophers. Voltaire is even often seen as the representative of the…
The Meditations (or Meditations on first philosophy) is a philosophical work by René Descartes, first published in Latin in 1641. From the perspective of…
We continue the review of Descartes’ Meditations : after Meditations 1, here is an analysis of Medidations 2. At the heart of the second Meditations…
The Second Sex has been published in 1949 by a french existentialist philosopher, Simone De Beauvoir. Some critics consider this essay as the greatest manifesto…
The discourse on method is a work by René Descartes published in 1637. It is the first book of philosophy published in French current…
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world: because everyone thinks he is so well endowed, that even those who are…
The human face in Emmanuel Levinas Our century has seen the man’s face disappear behind the multiplicity of determinations (biological, social and linguistic) that…
Durkheim‘s sociology marked the French sociology school. Mauss recognized the influence of the most major French sociologists. Emile Dukheim is the inventor, the main…
Essays are a work by Michel de Montaigne published from 1580 to 1588. It is the work of a fifty year old man , returning…
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing meaning This sentence by Pascal, a philosopher of the seventeenth century , is best known for…
Bachelard’s Philosophy: Science and Poetics The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard has worked on two main themes: the philosophy of science and imagination. In the…
Father of sadism, writer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade is a mythological figure of the French literature. Advocating a moral subversion, atheism and…
This quote is from the conference Existentialism is a Humanism where Sartre defines his views on existentialism. We shall not repeat the context of…
What is cartesian doubt? In the Discorse on Method, Descartes draws a distinction between one side the practical life, a field of action, and…
Near the post about the conference Existentialism is a humanism by Sartre, let’s look at the Sartre‘s moral existentialist, mainly expressed in three books:…