Philosopher · Twentieth century · France
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905–1980
French existentialist who taught that existence precedes essence: we are condemned to be free. Being and Nothingness of 1943 built the system; his plays and novels carried it to the public. He refused the Nobel Prize in 1964 and lived 1905 to 1980.
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- Born
- 1905, Paris, France.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jean-Paul Sartre
- Died
- 1980, Paris.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jean-Paul Sartre
- School
- Existentialism.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jean-Paul Sartre
- Known for
- Bad faith, the look of the other, and the slogan that man is condemned to be free.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jean-Paul Sartre
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