4/17/12

This week in the book we are talking about Sartre and his central assertion being human freedom. Sartre didn't believe in God and claimed that we all fundamentally desire to be God in the sense that we want to "be our own foundation". By wanting this he is stating that we would all like to be perfectly complete and self-justifying. He also talks about an negative way that we all tend to think of, we recognize want is not the case. We can conceive something otherwise than it is, and it will be otherwise. He also brings up the thinking that emotions are outside the control of will, but Sartre that you are sad only because you make yourself sad. He claims that emotions are not just moods that "come over us". For example anger with someone involves belief that someone has done something wrong, but if you don't think that action is wrong anymore, you are no longer angry.