Jean-Paul Sartre His Life and Philosophy

[@iliveinthekingdomofpain7692]

Sartre was the philosopher to the upper-middle class, by a strange twist of taste and strange need for recognition, by ‘Vichy France’. Beauvoir was whatever she wished herself to be, all her life. Camus was a working class hero, who without really knowing it became a banner for those ‘who wanted to live life’…’not let life, live them.’

[@treefrogjohnson7514]

Great lecture by Owen Wilson

[@rheamangles9347]

Omg I was totally going to say that lol

[@TheHunterGracchus]

Sounds like James Conant to me.

[@nataliak.5125]

no this is not OWEN WILSON, this is Jean-Paul, do not offend him because that means you are offending me. I will not put up with this. You remind me of my firstborn son. He died 68 years ago of starvation because I lost my job working for a big company. And as a result, I only had money to feed myself. Because I put myself first. I am big on self-care. But my husband had left me and I was trying to feed 5 children but I couldn't so I just had to let them pass away. I feel no regret. I have had my fair share of karma. Mafia is trying to kill me, they nearly succeeded several times. It was a scary time in my life, and it still is! Running from dangerous people at the age of 85 is a scary thing. Mostly because my bones are brittle and my back went hunch

[@nataliak.5125]

@@TheHunterGracchus no this is not JAMES CONANT, this is Jean-Paul, do not offend him because that means you are offending me. I will not put up with this. You remind me of my firstborn son. He died 68 years ago of starvation because I lost my job working for a big company. And as a result, I only had money to feed myself. Because I put myself first. I am big on self-care. But my husband had left me and I was trying to feed 5 children but I couldn't so I just had to let them pass away. I feel no regret. I have had my fair share of karma. Mafia is trying to kill me, they nearly succeeded several times. It was a scary time in my life, and it still is! Running from dangerous people at the age of 85 is a scary thing. Mostly because my bones are brittle and my back went hunchface-purple-crying

[@pepper5128]

Oooh, you just got told, son. Sit down. This ain't Own Wilson, bro, this is Jean-Paul! (But actually it's Wesley Cecil, Ph.D.)

[@badbaboye]

With great power comes great freedom , and with great freedom comes great responsibility.

[@apope06]

BEST LECTURE ON SARTRE EVER!

[@chopin65]

I enjoyed the lecture. It requires passion and great intelligence to cover the life of such a philosopher.

[@Popclone]

Wes covers all the philosopher lectures with passion. Didn’t you notice that brah!

[@alan2here]

"we" (some people I don't know before I was born) fought and suppressed authoritarianism and nationalism for a while during and after world war two, I'm glad of this, this took place in and around Germany. The quality of arguments in favour of very pure versions of these types of regime have not since improved. Sartre seems very sturdy and patient, qualities that could help in slowly patiently continuing this fragile, historic and current (more or less) victory over the authoritarian mindset. I find it helpful when the same behaviours are reported using the same terms, for example when two rulers exhibit the same behaviour one can not usually be "corrupt" while the other is simply "expedient". I also think it would be helpful if someone feels under attack or invaded by a small number of immigrants for them to take note next time someone is being excessively loud or boisterous or threatening, to determine if they think that person is foreign, whatever that means to them, in the UK at least it's usually the other way round.

[@darrenparis8314]

Midway, it seemed almost as if to say, "Freedom is the exercise of choice, not the absence of it, nor the lack of impetus impelling one choice over another." A kind of arc against nihilism.

[@nataliak.5125]

Hi Jean-Paul Sartre, I am a big fan of yours. I have been a fan since 1956, which was the year that I graduated high school. I wanted to tell you that your lectures have gotten me through life. You have inspired me to pursue my passion for embezzling funds from my job. If you were wondering, I work for a company called Trojan. It's a really cool job, I like it. But I did get caught embezzling funds and I got my arse fired. It was a very sad day and I will say I went into depression because now I cannot provide for my 5 children. My partner left me years ago at this point. I was able to afford a little bit of food but I ate all the food and gave none to my children. My children died not even a month later. But I was okay with that. Now I only have one mouth to feed, my own! I ran out of money. I was so desperate that I went to "the mob" and they loaned me money. I did not pay them back. They are very mad at me and they've attempted to kill me several times now. I am strong! I am still on the run to this day! It is hard to do so, mostly because I am 85 and still on the run. I am still very strong! Don't get me wrong, buuut.. my bones are getting brittle and my back is very hunch. Fun fact! When you a hunch, you can't run and jump as easily. I am getting by just fine, do not give a worry about me darling! I found a new husband this year, he is 23 years old, keeps me young 😄🤣 I am a HELLA cougar 🤣🤣🤣🤣 these little emojis are so fun!!🥰

[@NoreenHoltzen]

Thank you for this excellent lecture. Satre is largely re-expressing what he read from Neitzsche (taking subsets of the same larger ideas), but in the French fashion producing a lot of terminology and analogies to make the ideas appear his own, and of course using examples from his different experiences. In this sense he is an intellectual charlatan, but I imagine fun to have coffee with. He’s is hugely overrated and whilst extremely more intelligent than Jordan Petersen, one similarly mustn’t correlate his popularity with importance. He definitely underestimates the effects of social indoctrination. If you interview many Sans People you’ll find a lot of value similarity between them but extremely little shared with yourself, and if you interview people in a similar neighborhood as yourself you observe profound overlap. So it is obvious that your values are not self selected as Satre dreams about so much as inherited.

[@nowhereman6019]

I basically agree. I never really felt like I was getting anything substantial out of Sartre like I do with Nietzsche, Stirner, or Heidegger.

[@nataliak.5125]

I agree!!!!! He is the most exhilarating human

[@davidkemp3154]

Sartre is spelled w an r.

[@cheri238]

I loved this one ❤ Thank you again, Professor Cecil. I loved "Nausea." Satre, Albert Camus, (they just had little spat between themselves) and Simone Bouvier. I admired her greatly. I love all them. LOL "Dialectical Reason" President De Gaulle of France .( lo)l "We can't put Voltaire away." Ouotes: Voltaire 1. Judge a man by his questions, not his answers. 2. Stupid is the man who always remains the same. 3. To make a man bored, a woman should give him more freedom. The less control a man has , the more faithful he will be to you..Ah Ha! 4. War turns into wild beasts, people born to live as brothers. 5. An explained joke is no longer a joke. 6. Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in lifeboats. 7. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. 8 The comfort of the rich depends upon the abundant supply of the poor. 9. Cherish those who seek the truth, but be aware of those that it. 10. May God defend me from my friends, I can defend myself from my enemies. 11. God is a comedian paying to audience that is too afraid to laugh. 12. Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege also. 13. Don't think money is everything or you will be doing everything for money. 14. The strength of a woman lies in the weakness of men. 15. If a lady says 'no,' it means maybe," if she say 'yes', it's not a lady." AH!! HA!!!😢 😂😊

[@KanyeWesticlez]

ehhh i mean jordan peterson never talks about actual ontology. I get what you're saying but it's kinda apples to oranges. if you're calling Satre a grifter, as peterson is, at least sarte could actually make you go "huh, why is a chair a chair in a pretty Wittgenstein fashion". And I think the difference is the emphasis on education. peterson actively wants you to know less nor would i ever put him in the realm of philosophers, charlatan? sure, but Sarte's just kind of a beatnik type. He cared because he enjoyed it. not because appealing to dumb people was a means of living. and if i've learned anything from listening to every one of these lectures and others it's that lived philosophy is the best kind.

[@corbinmarkey466]

Lets get that Camus lecture, boi

[@staygolden77]

Cecil teaches in Washington st...Olympic peninsula, huh??? Cheers to this channel & Wes!!

[@donwhite2034]

Nice presentation of philosophy and life and times of Sartre

[@Over-Boy42]

Sartre has had such profound influence on me! I read Nausea during a pretty degrading period in my life and have gone through Existentialism is a humanism like 15 times! I'm now going through Being and Nothingness. But come on Wes! How could you not like No Exit?! It's didactic but it has a story and characters.

[@mortezagoodarzi2810]

Great lecture

[@chainsherlock6268]

So awesome! Merci!!

[@BigChief014]

Great presentation, thank you. :)

[@cerevor]

Sartre: guy with a weird eye. Look how proud he is. Let's talk about him.

[@summersunlin18]

what do you think sartre would say to someone who had to make the decision of taking a family member off of life support?

[@DavidEdwards-tl9fn]

Thank you

[@apope06]

from the 1st minute i could see it was gonna be good.

[@nataliak.5125]

I thought the same thing! You sound like a hopeful lad, you remind me of youngest child she died 68 years ago of starvation because I lost my job working for a big company. And as a result, I only had money to feed myself. Because I put myself first. I am big on self-care. But my husband had left me and I was trying to feed 5 children but I couldn't so I just had to let them pass away. I feel no regret. I have had my fair share of karma. Mafia is trying to kill me, they nearly succeeded several times. It was a scary time in my life, and it still is! Running from dangerous people at the age of 85 is a scary thing. Mostly because my bones are brittle and my back went hunchface-purple-crying

[@Oculoustuos]

How can you have Sartre declare anyone to be responsible? Response to what or whom? Deserve? How can one speak of deserve? Such words connote judgement. But there is no judgement. After the sun goes to the red giant stage, there is no world.

[@marcpadilla1094]

Existential objectivity and authenticity. There's a common thread in us all yet why do we struggle with authenticity and tend to wallow in bad faith: habits (comittments )that are self defeating.

[@cosmicwaderer1247]

Another amazing tuition free lecture.The end of brick and mortar.

[@kamalpreetsingh1686]

Good lecture.......

[@yasha12isreal]

do Albert Camus please

[@Heytherexoxo785]

i want that too.

[@Havre_Chithra]

Freedom is using the imagination.

[@daveclarke4875]

There’s a lot more to it than that sunshine! Let shack you up in a cell for 20 years against your will and see if you imagine gives you your freedom

[@Havre_Chithra]

@@daveclarke4875 What an idiotic comment. Entirely missing the point - sunshine 🌞

[@daveclarke4875]

Ryan G care to explain

[@Havre_Chithra]

@@daveclarke4875 Freedom and the essence of imaginative consciousness are one for Sartre. It is our ability to transcend "any specific reality". Consciousness and freedom are basically the same thing for Sartre.

[@daveclarke4875]

Ryan G sounds what does that actually mean though? It sounds very vague to me if not bollocks. If Sartre was so into transcending reality why did he resort to drinking whisky every night and abusing pharmaceuticals? Is he really someone you draw inspiration from? Cmon man. Victor Frankl is a much more worthy character and actually knew a thing or two about thriving in situations that were so impossible to survive in.

[@Heytherexoxo785]

I LIVE HEARING SIMONE'S NAME when I don't expect it but why wasn't I expecting it???

[@HxH2011DRA]

All of Sartre's political takes are correct

[@jeansainthilaire6344]

what happenned with hurssel influence on sartre and phenomenology or heidegger

[@Havre_Chithra]

I think he briefly touched on it when he talked about his studying for a year or so in Germany shortly after getting out of the prison camp.

[@Heytherexoxo785]

kinda sounds right.

[@cheri238]

Mine was erased again, I also loved Simone de Beauvoir

[@MonkeyMonkey]

21:00

[@MonkeyMonkey]

24:44

[@awayspa4511]

things got crazy at the end there

[@ROGERWDARCY]

Is the toad the equability of the frog?

[@bromley121]

Read my blog on Simone de Beauvoir which commemorates the 30th anniversary of her passing: abromley91.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/simone-de-beauvoir-conformism-wasnt-her-thing-but-freedom-was/

[@HiCramit]

i am nothing. - Babá.

[@memecathar1263]

He legit looks like the guy from Jurassic Park

[@Oculoustuos]

A funny kind of anachronism to refer to WWI Petain as WWIi Quisling ;-)

[@khuenguyen3086]

41:12

[@siminnouri9306]

I don’t think the professor try explain Sartre but to show how socialism is wrong and Sartre was ignore he was a wand guard for many movement in east and africa

[@hinteregions]

I disagree. I think we can say with full confidence that the professor here does concern himself with giving some account, 'explain' if you prefer, the man Jean-Paul Sartre and his ideas, as indicated by the title of the presentation. He's not trying to 'show how socialism is wrong,' for goodness' sake. He's an unusually good lecturer, not a shockingly bad one. What YOU are trying to show is an entirely different matter.

[@jdzentrist8711]

Fascinating. Utterly fascinating. Bill Clinton seems to have been influenced by Sartre, with his advocacy of "personal responsibiility": with his autoiography, "My Life"; with his sense from early age that he must "be engaged" with life to "make a difference." Finally, even with his version of "Calvinism," which gave him this profound sense that FREEDOM...meant being completely LIBERATED in, in this case, being ELECTED by "God" to "love and do as one pleases" [a la Augustine, interestingly]. Utterly no fear or guilt--because, as it were, Providence was "smiling down at you." Clinton's God is actually his own "empowered, human Self."

[@queenisforever1]

Wes does a fantastic job as always but about Sartre Beauvoir and co. I have only one thing to say- these guys actually never talked about anything substantive or meaningful which is the reason why you can't pin them down in an objective sense as their so called philosophy isn't about anything, it is just idle babble made to look serious and high brow stuff (pity no one called their bluff), indeed it is not PHILOSOPHY at all. And to think how much coverage and attention they've received both in France and internationally- what a fucking waste!

[@donalhughes9881]

About Sartre, de Beauvoire and co there is a great deal that is substantial. De Beauvoire for example initiated a transformation in the way we consider the status of women and there is nothing trivial in the implications. This sniffy attitude to so called Continental philosophy (it's hardly sensible to see it as specifically French) is increasingly dated and hollow.

[@nickwilsonxc]

Perhaps you’re incapable of understanding their work? Have you read Heidegger’s Being and Time? Did you take away anything from it? When reading Phenomenological philosophy you must picture yourself as the one experiencing the phenomena being described. It’s like a first-person philosophical novel which has no plot, but it does have something substantive to teach us about “being-in-the- world.” It’s about noticing the things that often go unnoticed.

[@zenden6564]

Does anyone really concern themselves with Sartre these days? The French academy Left prefers Derrida, Foucault and even Heidegger do they not? As the decades tick by he seems ever smaller, obtuse, passe' even than say Wittgenstein.

[@nataliak.5125]

FIRST OF ALL, YOU SAID A BAD WORD. SECOND OF ALL, IT WAS THE F WORD. THAT IS THE WORST ONE OUT THERE. FIFTH OF ALL if you were wondering, I work for a company called Trojan. It's a really cool job, I like it. But I did get caught embezzling funds and I got my arse fired. It was a very sad day and I will say I went into depression because now I cannot provide for my 5 children. My partner left me years ago at this point. I was able to afford a little bit of food but I ate all the food and gave none to my children. My children died not even a month later. But I was okay with that. Now I only have one mouth to feed, my own! I ran out of money. I was so desperate that I went to "the mob" and they loaned me money. I did not pay them back. They are very mad at me and they've attempted to kill me several times now. I am strong! I am still on the run to this day! It is hard to do so, mostly because I am 85 and still on the run. I am still very strong! Don't get me wrong, buuut.. my bones are getting brittle and my back is very hunch. Fun fact! When you a hunch, you can't run and jump as easily. I am getting by just fine, do not give a worry about me darling! I found a new husband this year, he is 23 years old, keeps me young 😄🤣 I am a HELLA cougar 🤣🤣🤣🤣 these little emojis are so fun!!🥰

[@nataliak.5125]

@@zenden6564 HE WILL ALWAYS BE APART OF US. HIS LEGACY IS WHAT KEEPS ME GOING

[@oliverfarrant3718]

He sounds like Nicholas Cage

[@boleroinferno]

No to all these things: "We've never had an American bourgeoisie" 'He wasn't actually opposed to the bourgeoisie' "Against all odds" "Essentially a contract they work out" His speculative motivations for writing Marxism = Dialectical materialism (Marx wrote about /historical-materialism/) The idea that communists condemned him for condemning US segregation These factual inaccuracies and others including the odd underplaying of Sartre's explicitly radical leftist politics are ridiculous. He moved between communist & anarchist politics his whole life without supporting Stalin. Communism is also grossly mischaracterized in this lecture, making it clear that Cecil has never read Marx (communism is a state of affairs akin to anarchism in which there is no state and no ownership of /means of production/ and people can still own all manner of private items as long as they do not exploit the labor of others). It should have also been emphasized that the covered topics are only the ideas of /young/ Sartre. I would not recommend this lecture for learning about Sartre.

[@jkovert]

Listen to Cecil's lecture on Marx. I'm pretty sure he knows what he's talking about.

[@patriciaormsby8413]

Do to Prof Dreyfus

[@donalhughes9881]

I agree. Regarding his account of dialectics, this is a popular and much repeated description with two major defects. Kaufmann's book on Hegel insists that Hegel never held the view of dialectics attributed to him, while Harvey's guide to Capital demonstrates how Marx applied his concept of dialectics, which again bears no resemblance to the popular version used in this lecture. In both cases the problem is people citing philosophers without having read them.

[@nataliak.5125]

I agree! You really need to be an experienced Sartre enjoyer to take in this lecture. It was a real doozy! but if you are just starting to listen to Sartre, there are better lectures to get to know him on a personal level

[@burrcorley]

US has never had a bourgeois? lol you're joking right?

[@Arma2Rebel]

Burr Corley bourgeois in the European sense

[@Heytherexoxo785]

@@Arma2Rebel okaay

[@VodkaRockPlay]

... Nice lecture, bad analysis of Hegel and Marx ...

[@yusefkhan1752]

He was a French intelligence agent. He wasn’t a philosopher.

[@johnlemon6084]

Marx fan here!

[@yazanasad7811]

No bourgeoisie in America? What does this mean Most freed when occupied by Germany (mostly just do trivia without this, freedom to what we want). Instead, think about responsibility and think through about how to act/react to occupation Your imagination has ethical implications, imagine and relate to world in the future Hegel - essences clashing (class defining you for example). Sartre against this

[@alan2here]

So he was anti-authoritarian, so against some of the communists, and anti-slavery, so against some americans, and then got complaints against him for not picking a side re left/right wing. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Cannot please all the people I guess, still those complaints against him seem cheap.

[@hinteregions]

I agree with you about 'cheap' and I would add 'self-serving.' And 'pig ignorant,' may as well. Thank you for being just reasonable like this. That's expensive these days!

[@paulazadfard8943]

درود بر سارتر بعد آزادی علی شریعتی بی احکام

[@TheTaoofEternalWar]

Sartre was a bastard and a coward. By his own definition. I find it amusing that the post ww2 French should have made a hero out of such a silly little man. Having had such a proud warrior tradition for so many centuries, and to have been made slaves by their ancestral enemies in such a short time, they needed some way of justifying their own cowardice. Along come Sartre, who did nothing real in the French Resistance, by his own admission. His philosophy was a philosophy of selfishness and hollow talk, backed by childish protest. Ultimately history is shaped by warriors willing to die for something greater than themselves. This is exactly what Sartre was not.

[@OtherSideOfTheVoid]

you are an idiot

[@Havre_Chithra]

Says the keyboard warrior.

[@mercuryhgpoisoned2621]

He's a PHILOSOPHER... what da ya spect?

[@TheTaoofEternalWar]

I know right, people actually pay for that shit, like tens of millions of people paying billions and billions of dollars to these arrogant little soft handed elitist shit bags, for what? To be told what books they should read basically. God people are stupid.

[@Havre_Chithra]

***** Ah yes, the humanities; what a bunch of stupid pricks. Studying useless shit like 'other languages', 'history', or this strange thing called 'law'. Damn, Nazis!

[@zacoolm]

Never had bourgeoisie in america..new level of idiocy…then who killed 60000 thousand kids in vietnam? Who made it taboo to talk about poverty and who was joseph McCarthy represented?

[@hinteregions]

'America never had a bourgeoisie, it had a middle class, but it never had a bourgeouisie in the sense that Europe had one.' That's what he said, that's the quote give or take, that you have for convenience taken out of context by curtailing. Perhaps you might address the quote properly? In what way is the American [bourgeouisie] the same as the classical European model, or its history? It most certainly was not, could not, be the same; the French Revolution did not take place in America for one thing. So now are there any 'new levels of idiocy' you want to tell us all about? You didn't listen past the first five words, did you.

[@zacoolm]

@@hinteregions and how is the european bourgeoise different than the american bourgeoise?

[@hinteregions]

@@zacoolm You're the one saying it's the same, you tell us. That is my point. YOU have to make your point, not ME.

[@zacoolm]

@@hinteregions I did not differentiate between bourgeoisie in america or Europe. In your first reply you inferred there was a difference, unless I misunderstood.

[@hinteregions]

@@zacoolm Yes, you did not differentiate, and on that basis called the lecturer an idiot and then some. I say there is a difference, a very big one, and you're being facile. Show me how in fact it is me who is being silly. By explaining why you think that and anyone who does not is on a new plane of idiocy. Or shut up as I have no time, zero, nil, nix, null, none to waste on stupid word games. You either know what you are on about or you do not. Show us what you got. Got it?

[@RobCoghanable]

Sartre is such a bore, I actually read being and nothingness as a challenge to myself. An elaborate farce.

[@zelzammar]

Very bad and opinionated lecture!

[@hinteregions]

Get an opinion and tell us what it is - as opposed to merely registering your utterly worthless, baseless disapproval - then maybe you'll be worth listening to.

[@ytugtbk]

This college professor represents everything wrong with intellectuals.

[@JustinMBailey]

really? Why?

[@LucasFuckingLauridsen]

ytugtbk yeah WHY

[@133547john]

elaborate bro