Theological language and the nature of man in Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy
| Abstract | There is no more prominent atheist today than Jean-Paul Sartre. Yet serious students of Sartre’s philosophy are struck by his unabashed use of theological idiom. This use is so extensive that Professor Hazel Barnes in her translator’s introduction to Being and Nothingness comments: Many people who consider themselves religious could quite comfortably accept Sartre’s philosophy if he did not embarrass them by making his pronouncement, “ There is no God,” quite so specific.1 The present chapter will explore the theological idiom of Sartre’s philosophy of man and pose the question whether—once the “embarrassing atheistic pronouncement” is removed—Sartre’s philosophical anthropology has any systematic value for the theologian. The chapter proceeds along six lines: (1) to investigate Sartre’s conception of human nature; (2-4) to illustrate his employment of theological language in describing man as desiring to be God, guilty of original sin, and incarnate in love; (5) to appraise his arguments for atheism; and (6) to assess particular aspects of his description of human reality. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,672 |
| External links | This entry has no external links. Add one. |
| Through your library | Only published papers are available at libraries |
Similar books and articlesAbdul Kadir Kazi (1975). Sartre and God: A Study of Jean Paul Sartre's Atheistic Existentialism. Distributed by Library Promotion Bureau, University of Karachi.
Stuart Z. Charmé (2000). Revisiting Sartre on the Question of Religion. Continental Philosophy Review 33 (1):1-26.
Sander H. Lee (1984). Sartre's Acceptance of the Princple of Universality. Philosophy Research Archives 10:473-476.
Gregory McCulloch (1994). Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early Sartrean Themes. Routledge.
Sander H. Lee (1985). The Failure of Love and Sexual Desire in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Philosophy Research Archives 11:513-519.
Leena Kakkori & Rauno Huttunen (2010). The Sartre-Heidegger Controversy on Humanism and the Concept of Man in Education. Educational Philosophy and Theory 44 (4):351-365.
Stephen Wang (2006). Human Incompletion, Happiness, and the Desire for God in Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Sartre Studies International 12 (1):1-17.
Kathryn T. Gines (2012). "The Man Who Lived Underground": Jean-Paul Sartre And the Philosophical Legacy of Richard Wright. Sartre Studies International 17 (2):42-59.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1965/1972). The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. New York,Vintage Books.
Analytics
Monthly downloads
Sorry, there are not enough data points to plot this chart.
|
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads0Recent downloads (6 months)0How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
