萨特:存在主义是一种人道主义
2006-03-02
Jean-Paul Sarte 1946
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Written: 1946
Source: Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre
Translator: Walter Kaufman
Transcribed: Andy Blunden
HTML Markup: Andy Blunden
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Source: Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre
Translator: Walter Kaufman
Transcribed: Andy Blunden
HTML Markup: Andy Blunden
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Existentialism is a Humanism
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My purpose here is to offer a defence of existentialism against several reproaches that have been laid against it.
First, it has been reproached as an invitation to people to dwell in quietism of despair. For if every way to a solution is barred, one would have to regard any action in this world as entirely ineffective, and one would arrive finally at a contemplative philosophy. Moreover, since contemplation is a luxury, this would be only another bourgeois philosophy. This is, especially, the reproach made by the Communists.
First, it has been reproached as an invitation to people to dwell in quietism of despair. For if every way to a solution is barred, one would have to regard any action in this world as entirely ineffective, and one would arrive finally at a contemplative philosophy. Moreover, since contemplation is a luxury, this would be only another bourgeois philosophy. This is, especially, the reproach made by the Communists.