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Reactions To My Post On King Charles III Being Mean To His Servants

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Sep 22

"King Charles III being beastly to the servants from day one - because obviously moving a few items on a desk is beneath blue bloods - and on live TV - great start to his Reign http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhV2082VhPA " I...

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Jean Paul Sartre Existentialism And Bad Faith

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 25 Feb 18

If not for Secular Humanism, (organized modern atheism) I might have become an Existentialist. It seems the only credible philosophy of atheism/agnosticism apart from Humanism itself. Existentialism began with Søren Kierkegaard...

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Further Thoughts On History

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 6 Jul 17

In 1938 French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a novel called Nauea. It’s about a historian trying to write about an obscure figure called Rolebon who was supposedly involved in the French and American revolutions....

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Can we choose our emotions and feelings?

Adrian Sanchez @checky99 (224) • Spain 27 Feb 16

according to the philosopher sartre we are responsible for the choice of our emotions and feelings, and it is a thing than almost everybody thinks that is not true, but I say that it's totally true. So I do this quiestion to know...

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Television Review – Black Mirror – White Christmas

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Jan 16

Spoiler alerts A terrifying and incredibly bleak vision of Christmases yet to come, though possibly very soon. In this future, people can be manipulated and blocked in the real World just as on Facebook. Two men apparently...

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Would you save your country or your family?

sashakiddo @sashakiddo (1102) • United States 23 Mar 11

This is an adaptation of a question from a chapter I was reading by Jean Paul Sartre. Let's imagine your country is fighting a war. You are currently staying at home with you mother who is very ill and needs you to take care...

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What does it mean to say Hell is the other people?

ubermensch @ubermensch (136) • Philippines 14 Sep 10

I have read about one of the plays written by a French Nobel Laureate named Jean Paul Sartre entitled No Exit. From that play, there are three characters in a certain small room with no windows to look around. Each of them are...

hell is the other people

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Philosophy Discussion - Existentialism - Please read the statement below

Withoutwings @Withoutwings (6992) • United States 1 Dec 06

and give me your thoughts on what it means. "How can this consciousness I have of my own existence be related to my existence, since it obviously is NOT my existense?" - Jaques Salvan (from "TO BE AND NOT TO BE an analysis of...

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Is Sartre's existentialist ethics possible? ethics without moral principles to f

marvit79 @marvit79 (341) • Italy 30 Nov 06

Is Sartre's existentialist ethics possible? ethics without moral principles to follow? What are some arguments that confirm that existential ethics is possible? and those that deny it?