8 Life Lessons from Jean-Paul Sartre (Existentialism)

[@PhilosophiesforLife]

Sartre says “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” We hope that you enjoyed this video and for more videos to help you find success and happiness using ancient philosophical wisdom, don’t forget to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching.

[@chakotaymunsami7741]

How to attain enlightenment - Carl Jung (Jungian philosophy)

[@seanleith5312]

Oh, God. Give me a break. 1.Why would I care about what a guy with strange looking eyes say? 2. A French philosopher? That's would be enough.

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

It would seem that if I did anything which I chose to do, this would be an act of freedom.

[@backtocalm]

My favorite Sartre quote: “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

[@joanholtebiering8052]

Where do you find that quote?

[@khaneljorobaev3767]

Your favorite Sartre's quote, not Sartre quote.

[@hiataki7]

My favorite Sartre quote, "Human life begins on the other side of despair"

[@xanderx8661]

@@khaneljorobaev3767that’s wrong too 😂

[@TheMindfulMiner]

Jean-Paul Sartre philosophy of existentialism has saved my life, given me a meaning, and made me realise how much freedom and potential i have in this life. Although similar to Nihilism or Absurdism in their view for atheism/ how man has no meaning in this life, his philosophy offers you specific solutions and the complete power to acknowledge that YOU can create this meaning, and YOU can be your god in this life.

[@charlesbarboza8591]

Sometimes we just need to hear someone put together words and in so doing, create ideas and eventually tell stories. We all have unlimited possibilities and we all do ourselves justice by making the decisions to attempt to tap into our vast potential and actually be the person you are meant to be. Of course there is injustice in the world, but im convinced that there are more decent people that there are inhuman humans. I’m wishing everyone the gift of self examination and personal growth. I guarantee, the more one focuses on being their best selves, the greater their experience as they go through this journey called life. Be well.

[@Davlavi]

This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.🙏

[@henrikrolfsen584]

Sartre is absolutely correct: Humans can reinvent themselves at any time. We are born with a certain amount of "Genetic Baggage" which can work to our advantage, or disadvantage. Some are born with amazing natural abilities, such as a Michelangelo, Da Vinci, or Mozart. But, for most of us, our genetic heritage plays little or no role in our lives. We are not born with an identity, but rather, we pursue what stimulates us. We study what interests us. We may teach ourselves how to be proficient at something. In the process, are are steadily becoming our own creation; our own invention. But not all persons are self confident. Some feel lost, until they can find some other person to follow, and imitate. About 75% of humans have no clear vision of themselves, consequently these persons may flounder about, until they can join some group, (Of other lost souls), and then allow the leader of the group to do most their thinking for them. Meanwhile, the other 25%, have a clear understanding of the things that inspire them, and interest them. These are the self-creators. These persons live out their lives striving for some ideal, or goal. In the process, the self-motivated paint their own psychological self-portrait! If you believe you are not free, then you will never be free. If you are confident in your tastes, opinions, and choices, then you are a free agent, a person in the process of becoming himself; you are an existentialist, because you create your own existence.

[@ezra6749]

Well said. Although I would like to clarify that Michelangelo, Davinchi and Mozart worked extremely diligently in their areas of expertise. Based on biographies I’ve read, even though they may have had inclinations dictated by genes, they would not had flourished the way they did, had it not been for dedication and effort. Apart from this, I totally agree with your comment.

[@tomsmith4542]

if they were born in africa, all of them would never be famous

[@ywoulduchoosetousethis]

86% on the planet who do not believe in themselves. An increase of 23% over 50 years. It is virtual impossible for change from these as anxiety rules thar bus.

[@henrikrolfsen584]

@@ywoulduchoosetousethis Thank you! We agree 100%

[@henrikrolfsen584]

Bless you.

[@mingloo4320]

Thank you for this video 🙏🏼

[@antoniovittorio4686]

The best philosophy about FREEDOM ever. Sartre "is" a French and the 3 principles on which the French republic has been based are LIBERTY, JUSTICE and FRATERNITY. We see that those who defined the principles of this republic put LIBERTY first, hence without LIBERTY all others principles, even JUSTICE, cannot stand and are doomed to collapse. Also, as I understand, for Sartre LIBERTY implies RESPONSABILITY, and this most of people do not seem to be aware of. And perhaps this is the main cause of both individual and social mess.

[@lovenikolatesla846]

In an odd way it was very noble of him to refuse the noble prize award.

[@dextermorgan7439]

I agree with a lot of what he says. But some things are just a highway to getting fired 😂

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Wow I love this Program . Please keep It Up.

[@BeingMe23]

It's better to regret doing something verses regret not doing it.

[@dailyquotes5699]

It's not the number of arrows that determines victory, but the sharpness of the arrow and the goal that determines

[@car_garage294]

KZbin just showed me this on my Subscription video suggestions! Very educating thank you.

[@charlesdahmital8095]

A writer should never allow himself to become an institution. Someone forward this to Jordan Peterson.

[@byronmaddison1570]

Thank you, great video :)

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[@sadafs9910]

How beautiful are these lessons! ❤ I'm in the process of rethinking who I am, what direction should I give to my life and all the rest. And this totally resonated with me because it is what I choose to be that will define me, through my actions. Love all your videos. Thank you so much.

[@golflover65]

Always follow path of love! ❤❤❤

[@BeingMe23]

4:45 We can never control what happens to us. But we can always control how we react.

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

Exactly. I've watched this video from Better Ideas and 5 things you need to hear that "Not everything that happens to you is your fault. But everything that happens to you is your responsibility"

[@alexzhu4710]

thank you, help me much

[@beatsonfire4998]

Thank you for that

[@msarikah]

I'm so glad I saw the Lao Tzu video first.

[@CosmicQJ]

As becoming a men We most go though trials and tribulations Put in blood sweat and tears for are goals- the1QJ🎯

[@logosso9413]

Please do video on Soren Kierkegaard

[@BeingMe23]

The tragic thing that can happen to someone is. Going to their Grave not knowing the person they were ment to be.

[@Tom-uk2ow]

And in the end if he is live today,he will for sure say that is democracy nothing different from totalirasm..

[@demep.airless]

What I think don't even matter actually. I just love the nothingless because everything else just seems has some value to be appreciated.

[@reeee1348]

thanks would be cool to have chapters in the vid to get back to 💟💟💟

[@danielpasterp5837]

Please make a video on the psychologist Albert Ellis.

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

It is less true that people mindlessly obey orders than that they do whatever they want -- so long as they believe they can get away with it ! Soldiers, employees, and followers who obey orders do not mindlessly do so -- as if they were robots. Instead, they have already bought-into the reasons for doing so, and they are also aware of the possible consequences for their disobeying orders. These reasons might be legitimate or illegitimate, and the consequences might be real or imaginary, and it might be that someone lacks the courage to disobey when they know (or believe) an order is wrong. But it is less true that people are mindless than it is that they are self-serving and calculating in their decisions to obey orders.

[@alysononoahu8702]

Choice I am reminded of the story of the Zen master and listening to the story of sartre's student he could have stayed home but he could have broken his legs and been a burden to his mother

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[@laracroft369]

Which books of Sartre can i read to get into those lessons in details?

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[@jaykay6387]

Interesting and valuable way to look at life. However, we are not "blank slates" in a "literal", or "actual" way, although for his purposes it is crucial to believe this. IMO, this is a "hack" of sorts to make his philosophy "work".

[@Raven28Pisces]

Eren: it's just freedom 😌

[@MarceloHenrique1404]

Best lesson, don't be like him, bitter and resentful.

[@Mario7p]

How was he resentful?

[@MarceloHenrique1404]

@@Mario7p all he did it's just to try to spit on God, pathetic, childish and philosophically senseless...

[@rabbychan]

@@MarceloHenrique1404 are you religious?

[@MarceloHenrique1404]

@@rabbychan why care? Metaphysics and universal values are my way to connect with the cosmos. All true religions have that....

[@Sneakysnex777]

Dont lose to justin bieber -Jean Paul Satre

[@BeingMe23]

3:15 People with ADDHD have this challenge.

[@charlesdahmital8095]

For the most part I do not see eye to eye with JPS. Aside from the inferred joke - JPS says we are born blank and that we should live up to our values. But, he makes no description of how those values come to be. If they come from external forces, local societal values, then how is that your choice? That makes your decisions experientialy subjective based on other peoples values of how you 'should' behave. Therefore, not being a freedom of choice on your behalf at all. That's freedom to be who they tell you to be. If however you are born with some form of 'self' to begin with as Jung describes, then you grow to choose to follow or break with your local societal values. Beyond that his position is mostly will to power and behaving in your best interest. Nietzsche and Thucydides.

[@MarceloHenrique1404]

there is no blank

[@Mario7p]

Its your choice once you educate yourself and absorb enough values and experience life enough. So yeah at first you are mostly a drone, and you might never break free from that either unless you are inclined to, or happen to study philo.(no guarantee either way)

[@charlesdahmital8095]

@@Mario7p I agree. The question becomes how come so few get the 'inclination' when so many don't?

[@BeingMe23]

I came into this World to be me.

[@香料國境]

Damn

[@vaccaphd]

Of course, Sartre's bad faith makes no sense if we live in a deterministic universe. What would Sartre say about animals? Would he think that a bird is free to give up flying? And why an animal would be defined by its essence unlike us under an atheist's view of the world?

[@TerryMuriel-l8s]

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[@chadholweger2402]

It’s good, but you a take a little of what he is saying and add your spin, instead of the raw data

[@BeingMe23]

FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real

[@sovietbot6708]

You make it sound like he later supported capitalism. He was always a communist. He just stopped supporting the Soviet Union. Mao also stopped supporting the Soviet Union

[@HusseinAli-jc5pc]

Very delusional and contradictory principles that lack confrontation with one's self and real life. Woow I'm profoundly shocked! Most of philosophers get lost in studying, teaching and debating about philosophies while loosing touch with reality. Maybe that's why I like Neitzsche and Camus they seem that they had some real confrontations, but this is a joke. Thank you @philosophies for life for your amazing content.

[@francisk.cooper9596]

I don't think you control what others think about you, but you can control your response to that. So, the quote “don't let others define you” is not applicable.

[@rabbychan]

You totally misunderstood that line, fyi.

[@asadabbasmirza9519]

Nonsense by Sarte

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

And yet no man can make himself into a giraffe !

[@mariaradulovic3203]

BS

[@butchdeadlift10]

Wow, but a bad interpretation

[@stefanherrera3396]

How so

[@butchdeadlift10]

@@stefanherrera3396 To put it simply: Sartre is not about MAKING a new life, but the ability to ABANDON an old life. This video (If I can recall 8 months ago) views Sartre through a very enabling American lens of self determination. The American euphoric dream of "choosing your own destiny" does not sound like Sartre. It sounds like Ayn Rand as interpreted by Walt Disney. "Your happily ever after awaits should you choose to work for it". Na. No. No no. Keirkegaard and Sartre are about how the lives we are given and born into are inherently artificial and can be abandoned as easily as any illusion. "My name was Timothy. Now my name is Roger. I will not answer to Timothy". The ability to let go rather than to gain or create is the power these philosophers champion. But most of the people I find on youtube talking about Sartre makes me think that Sartre will sing "When you wish upon a star" at any moment.

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

"Become who you truly are" ? This seems to contradict the fundamental premise of the existentialist that there is no essential self. You are only, at any particular moment, according to existentialism (as opposed to essentialism), whatever action you are currently taking -- there is no true or essential self for you to become. While I completely understand that 'authenticity' plays an important role in existentialist thinking, it is contradictory to claim, on the one hand, that there is no real self, yet, on the other hand, that someone is being inauthentic. What exactly is this authenticity ? Embracing the supposed fact that you are completely free at every moment because there is no real or essential self for you to be, or to become ? If so, then, how exactly is this being authentic ? To be authentic means to be truly who you are -- not someone else ! But, according to existentialism, there is no real you to begin with, and simply acting will not change this fundamental fact. Why would it ? Actions are only temporary, whereas an authentic self is something permanent. Once a different action is taken, whatever 'self' existed in the prior action will no longer exist -- there will, instead, be a new 'self' that has taken its place. But, in fact, all these momentary 'selfs' are nothing but the actions themselves. The only thing that really exists -- at least if you take the fundamental premise of existentialism seriously -- is a pure freedom acting, thereby creating in the process a series of meaningless actions and momentary 'selfs' !

[@fayeinoue7455]

very good point, i suggested to a friend that they should look into existentialist philosophy and they found this video so in watching it to see if it was a good representation of the philosophy i was a bit disappointed to find out that while some of the things they teach about sartre's work is accurate the framing and interpretation of it is wildly off. this video definitely gives me some strong "toxic positivity" vibes

[@scottwalker9766]

The self is a combination of individuals, and the individual is a combination of selfs.

[@alwaysgreatusa223]

@@scottwalker9766 What then is an individual, if not a self ?

[@scottwalker9766]

Essentially, the individual is a concrete expression of the many selfs.

[@scottwalker9766]

These multiple selves come together to form a coherent and unique individual.

[@nawalasky]

Excellent synopsis of Existentialism by JP Sartre. His philosophy is so refreshing and certainly adequate to our times.

[@joylove8693]

This message is very helpful, many thanks.

[@fraidoonw]

thanks! Great! Sartre is one of my favourite writers.

[@janetkovacs9490]

But what’s the point to becoming anything? We r all just a blip in the universe…soon to be gone and forgotten like the many before and everything after…still lost 😢

[@BeingMe23]

For many years I have said. Everything we do and say will effect someone somewhere.

[@HenryCasillas]

☮️

[@shubhi.diaries]

This truly is one of the best possible explanations of Satre's ideas that I came across. N also such beautifully presented ❤❤❤❤

[@anthenehbeze.]

Best.

[@prasanna7382]

made a lot of notes

[@lubabatasnim]

Great Teachings.

[@intexzz]

Im exited to see the video

[@Mario7p]

Im stayed to see it

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I'm entered after seeing it

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Excellent video. If anyone is interested I do a series on YT about philosophy quotes. If anyone is interested take a look.

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