Homework: Jean-Paul Sartre : Existentialism and Human Freedom

1. Read the excerpt from Nausea. if we were true, as some physicists believe, that the universe all of existence arose spontaneously from nothing, how would that make you feel? would the passage describe your feeling ?
2. In the passage from ” Existentialism and Humanism,” Sartre suggests that people invented God to escape confronting the contingency of things and their own freedom.
b. Do you agree ? he also suggests that people hide from their freedom by pretending that they are material objects, and hence have a nature that determines how they must be.
c. Could there be anything to that idea?
3. In “Portrait of the Anti-Semite” Sartre suggests that prejudice for example, anti-choose. do you agree.

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1. Is our degree of freedom a question for scientists or one that ordinary people like ourselves can settle just by reflection on our condition?
2. Even if we not as free as Sartre supposes, might people still be afraid of what they make to be their freedom and so try to evade it? Do you think people do this?

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