Being and Nothingness (World Philosophers and Their Works)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
- First Published: 1943
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, Self, Europe or Europeans, Good and evil, Human behavior, Existentialism, Life, philosophy of
Context
The subtitle of Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, clearly states the central intention of the author. Jean-Paul Sartre is at one with Greek philosophers Parmenides and Plato in his contention that the chief problem of philosophy is the problem of being. Significant differences, however, emerge in a comparison of the ontological investigations of the ancient Greeks with those of Sartre. The adjective “phenomenological” in the subtitle indicates one of these significant differences.
Sartre’s ontology is an ontology that...
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