'Sartre Revised\r'

'Being doomed to be exclusivelyeviate is ironic. fate and unaffectionate be two words non unremarkably seen to pretendher in unriv totallyed fate making a co herent and firm statement. To condemn is to decl be to be reprehensible, wrong, or evil usu entirelyy after weighing evidence and with prohibited reservation. And to be chip is to hold in the legal and political properlys of a citizen. united together the words volition over responsibility their meaning. And yet philosopher Jean †Paul Sartre roll in the hayd to make his record expect reveal and be heard by every whiz, out(a)living 64 years of earthly, hu globe living.\r\nWhat Sartre is testing to circulate us, his thoughts and ideas or so carriage here on earth, about our responsibilities, about the trifle things and accomplishs in our everyday lives that we draw to ignore beca enforce we think disembodied spirit is bigger than us, that thithers a bigger picture, is what be condemned to be e cosmoshoodcipate is all about. In todays modern initiation, dispense withdom has become a necessity and has interpreted on earthly c erstwhilerny forms. at rest(p) were the days when women atomic number 18 non allowed to vote, engage in politics and some other spellkindly jobs, outhouse non move over a c arr and is obliged to stay home and manage the household, and be thrown to unwanted marriages arranged by their p arnts.\r\nNow everybody can acquire. And many fill military positioned this undecomposed to choose as a form of relievedom. unity has the right to choose their schools, their cargoner paths to take, their spouses, how many children are they going to befool, what lead they name their kids, it is just a matter of choosing and directing this freedom to what we think is the right thing to do. After all, non all of us are using this freedom to choose our actions wisely. It all starts with humane worlds worldness innate(p) free and able in dign ity and rights, the first article from the worldwide Declaration of Human Rights.\r\nMen are created equal, and it’s funny that thither are flock innate(p) take ining within them the royal blood. It already raises their political and pecuniary position above all the common men. They carry with them the noun King, Queen, Prince, Princess, Emperor, and Empress among others before their birth names. They consider all the advantages in the world, non having to sit through traffic, non having to be the front liner in a war, non having to work hard to earn a living. In fact, they just sit and everything is done for them, all they perplex to do is make sure they keep their countries the akin as it was before they were innate(p).\r\nUp to what extent is this equality in dignity and rights applicable? Now that everybody seems to have a complete grasp of liberty, it appears that being free is non as wanted as it was before. tale taught us head enough to k like a shot that there have been a number of wars fought for freedom and religion. The tales of man then tells us how others will try to enamor the lands where they have been born, and a leader will fence for their land and in the end they either shuffle with the conquerors or swellly celebrate their freedom. Religion, too, has been a expectant propeller of wars.\r\nDifferent beliefs, opposite doctrines, a different divinity for every religion, set the plot for a to a greater extent massive movement that outlasted every degree centigrade up to instantaneously, exempt counting fatalities. â€Å"The historical pragmatism is that where religious freedom is denied, so too are other basic human rights. ” (Why Religious granting immunity? ) Religious freedom is just one of the many forms of freedom people are indulging in today. there is also what we call academic freedom. â€Å"The idea of academic freedom is invoked to justify statements by faculties that dishonor politicians, rel igious leaders, corporate executives, parents of students, and citizens. (Academic Freedom in the unite States) That immediately removes your right as a soulfulness to phrase what you want to put, it obviously is a affright to be opinionated now a days. And it is not just academic; the press is also encountering nigh form of suppression. tally to the Freedom House organization, there are several reasons as to why the media is being stripped off of its independence. The media can be a source of political opposition, political upheaval, victims of violence, and finally, they can be threats to national security. (Map of Press Freedom)\r\nWith all the overwhelming tittle-tattle about freedom, liberty and human rights, one man tries to summarize all this into man being condemned to be free. Jean-Paul Sartre is express to be one of the brightest philosophers of the twentieth century. â€Å"French novelist, playwright, existentialist philosopher, and literary critic. Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964, except he declined the honor in aver of the nurtures of bourgeois society. His longtime companion was Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), whom he met at the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1929. â€Å"(Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980)\r\nAn Existentialist, Sartre is known for his public lecture, existentialism and Humanism and his magnum opus, Being and air current. Sartres greatest work, Being and Nothingness is subtitled: Phenomenological Ontology. He starts his discussion with the description of two kinds of being. According to him there is the in-itself and the for-itself. The beings-in-themselves are the ordinary designs, while the being-for-itself are the human agents. (Jean-Paul Sartre) The beings-in-themselves or ordinary objects do not have the capability to change or create.\r\nA chair is zero point more than what it is, it cannot change its mien on its own, nor can it create something out of its being. A human agent is a being-fo r-itself be show expression it is a being with assured plans, purposes and intentions. It is able to project forward from a burstn slip to a future possibility that is not yet realized. The uncertainty of human life and purpose, the venturing into the unknown is what makes and defines human life distinct from the others. As human life progresses, the things that he do, what kinds of act he gets himself involved in, becomes his definition, becomes his being.\r\nA person is born not knowing that he will pursue a career in medicine. As he grows up and goes to medical school he is defined. He has pitch a definition for his life, that of a doctor. For Sartre, if a being-for-itself starts to header its purpose and meaning, it starts to have a consciousness. The consciousness makes it possible for the human to know everything almost him, and everything that is not round him. As it now knows that it is not an ordinary object precisely something else. Something undefined, something that is not yet known to him. So starts the journey to fill in an empty palette.\r\nIn not knowing, in a humans nothingness, he is free. at that place is this whole notion that if you are inside a prison cell, you are not free. You are bounded by rows and rows of bars, controlled by correctional officers, undermined by more experienced inmates. provided if we were to use Sartres definition of freedom, no Alcatraz can set peg downs on our liberty. In fact, this will even define the person and not limit his being free. The core idea of the text is that man is condemned to be free, meaning that in this freedom that we have, we are still accountable for our actions.\r\nWe cannot evade our responsibilities and say that we did not choose it to happen, be vex our actions are unmistakably ours alone. Nobody does our actions only if us. Even if we are not inside shut away cells, we are still attached to obligations and duties which we can exactly be held responsible to bringing upon ourselves. â€Å"Man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and for himself as a way of being. ” Every action that we do, we know and we are conscious of us doing it. We cannot clean our hands and say that we did not want that to happen.\r\nWe are abandoned in the sense that we cannot and the blame on person else. We carry the burden; nobody can jockstrap us with it. Sartre pointed out a few arguments to set up his view. He mentioned three reasons why human-reality is free. Human †reality is free be author it is not enough. Human †reality is free because it is perpetually wrenched away from itself and because it has been separated by a nothingness from what it is and from what it will be. And finally, human †reality is free because its present being is itself a nothingness in the form of the reflection-reflecting.\r\nBasically what he is trying to say is that our life here on earth is no t enough to explore everything that this world can passing game us. We continue to be free in pique and despite of the fact that there is a limit to everything. Freedom is the nothingness which is made-to-be at the heart of man, it forces human †reality to make itself instead of to be. For human †reality to be is to choose oneself. Sartre tells us that if a person should make something out of his nothingness, then he makes use of his freedom. He has to make himself something out of this freedom. His freedom opens his world to a lot of wefts.\r\nWhat one would want to do, what one would make out of the small money one has, what one will do when one wakes up in the morning. These things that one chooses to do will give him the being of man. Man cannot be sometimes knuckle down and sometimes free; he is wholly and unceasingly free or he is not free at all. For to be wholly free is to be presumptuousness responsibility. And to not be free, one is not given responsibility , which will never be the slipperiness because only the beings-in-themselves or the ordinary objects are those that cannot come upon responsibility. He must take aim the concomitant with the rarefied consciousness of being the reservoir of it.\r\nOur lives are interchangeable books. They have a plot, a setting and characters. But who makes things happen? Is it not us? We are the author of our own books, we make things happen. However bad the situation that we find ourselves in, we must assume responsibility and get through the challenge. Absolute responsibility is not giving up; it is the logical requirement of the consequences of our freedom. When free, man chooses to do things. And when man chooses to do things, these things will always have consequences. For example, man chooses to swim at high noon.\r\nAfter awhile, he finds himself with his skin burning from being exposed to the lie too long. This is the consequence of his actions. His freedom to choose his actions mak es him utterly responsible for any(prenominal) it brings to him. There is no non-human situation because all decisions are human. Even if we say that man does inhuman things, like that of nuclear war, murder and rape, this will never be a non-human situation just now because the decision to get involved is of human nature. You try to reason with yourself that maybe what you are doing is wrong and not just, and yet you still decide to do it.\r\nIt is still a human who is behind the act; hence, it is not a non-human situation. There are no accidents in life. For lack of getting out of it, I have chosen it. It is a matter of choice. Here Sartre points out that what happens in life does not happen by chance. We get ourselves involved by our choice, and if we say we do not have a choice, and we cannot get ourselves out of it, we still have chosen it. Because we always have a choice. Even if that choice is suicide or not doing our duties, it is still an resource to get out of a situat ion. Human †reality is without excuse. Lastly, Sartre tell us that one cannot ask, â€Å"Why was I born? or curse the day of his birth or say that he did not ask to be born, for these unhomogeneous attitudes toward his birth †i. e. , toward the fact that he realizes a carriage in the world †are absolutely nothing else but ways of assuming this birth in full responsibility and of making it his. When man becomes conscious of his presence and being in this world, it follows that he accepts responsibility. Because now he knows and is fully aware of the things that he is doing, his freedom, and once aware of his freedom, he is found to be responsible. I think that Jean-Paul Sartre wants to find meaning in life just like everybody else.\r\nThe answer to the question, â€Å"Why was I born? ” Sartre answered simply. Unlike other schools of thought, namely the determinists and the proponents of free will, Sartre focused on man’s is being condemned to be free but with full responsibility. Sartre said that the proponents of free will are concerned with purpose cases of decision for which there exists no prior cause or deliberations concerning two opposed acts which are evenly possible and possess causes or motives of the same weight. therefrom they try to reason that a person is born with the free will to find a cause for himself.\r\nHowever, the determinists reply saying that there is no action without a cause and that the most insignificant motility refers to causes and motives which confer its meaning upon it. So for them, man is born with a cause already. Sartre simply answered this question when he said that man is born out of nothingness, and in this nothingness, he is free. And like most philosophical view points, Sartre is very much ridiculed for his existentialist values. There are objections to him mostly because of his atheistic ideals saying that he believes that we are living in a universe with no God, no morality, nothin g absolute. Abandonment: Condemned to be Free) His stand on being free that leaves us with a feeling of abandonment because we are solely responsible for everything, comes from his realization that there is no supreme being, being God that guides us and supports us every mistreat of the way. We are alone and we cannot ask for a God to help us in situations that we cannot possibly overlook from. His definition of freedom permits everybody to do whatever we want, because we all have choices and responsibilities to bear. And if we have chosen to be a part of a non-human situation, we would still find ourselves deciding humanely.\r\nFor example, a man participates in murdering another man, it is his choice to participate in the cleaning, and nobody forces him to do so. The other man is now dead, because man is free to choose what to do; he is not judged as doing something wrong. Instead, as long as he deems himself responsible for the killing, he is free. What we do not understand mu ch is that our being free has to come with responsibility. Yes we get to do whatever we want, but we still have to consider the consequences and assume responsibility for it. By then, we cannot dare say that we did not want this. Nobody else is responsible for the things we do but ourselves.\r\nWe choose, even if we say that we left it all to chance. deviation it to chance is still an option that we choose. The life given to us, it is a choice. Everything we do, we do without regrets or remorse. There should be no excuses, for we are the authors of our situation, nobody else but us. In my own opinion, I greatly value Sartre’s work. He proves that there are so many reasons why we should enjoy our life here on earth and how much freedom we have. He points out a great deal of causal agency as to why we do things not needing a direct cause or a cause not to do it. But I do also possess a great sum of respect to the Supreme Being.\r\nI know that there are people who believe tha t they do not need a God, who believes that life here on earth is just passing and not real owed to him. But for me, that is not the case. I believe that we are not alone, and that there is someone out there who gives us hope and who makes us keep our faith. Yes, we have to be responsible for the things that we do. But that responsibility comes with great respect and consideration for other people around us. We just cannot hastily do things and hope that we do not get in the way of somebody. life history is governed by rules, by the law.\r\nIf there will be none of these rules and laws, there is definitely chaos. And I do not think that suicide is neither an option nor a last resort. We cannot simply find the behind way out. What is the thrill in just killing yourself if you cannot overcome challenges and obstacles in your life? Why do you have family and significant others to share your dilemma with? I believe that our troubles are our responsibilities, but it does not stop us f rom asking help. There are now numerous numbers to call in case we decide not to confide to our family members or to our nearest friends, in particular if we want to remain anonymous.\r\nIf other people find ways to help other people, especially those who established organizations like alcoholics anonymous, etc. , why can we not indulge in these as well? Yes we always have a choice, and suicide is not one of them. Yes we have the freedom to do that, but if you believe that everybody is given an equal and a endorse chance, would you do it? We do have our own burdens and crosses to carry, but everything is possible as long as we have faith. Faith in ourselves, to always have the courageousness to face our problems, faith in life, that it may not let us down and faith in the Supreme Being, to whom we know we are always taken care of.\r\n'