Essays about: "Sartre"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word Sartre.

  1. 1. Tabooing Dirty Hands?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Henning Bollmark; [2024]
    Keywords : Dirty Hands; torture; crisis; utilitarianism; weak rule utilitarianism; Sartre; moral fictionalism; political theory; unspeakable; taboo; Smutsiga händer; tortyr; kris; utilitarism; svag regelutilitarism; Sartre; moralisk fiktion; politisk teori; onämnbar; tabu;

    Abstract : The normative political theory problem of dirty hands (DH) concerns the troubling possibility that political leaders, from a (mostly) consequentialist perspective, might sometimes be morally required to make exceptions from sensitive rules like prohibitions of extremely harmful practices (e.g. READ MORE

  3. 2. In Favour of Sartre’s Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Radomil Kessl; [2023]
    Keywords : Emotion; Sartre; Perception; Consciousness;

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  4. 3. An Existential reading of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Fatimetou Dia; [2020]
    Keywords : Existentialism; Samuel Beckett; English; Literature;

    Abstract : The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett has for a long time been considered one of his best works. Grasping the significance of key factors such as modernity, modernism and historical background is of great importance to situate and contextualise the play. READ MORE

  5. 4. To know the self as a matrix of maybe : An account of the specialness of self-knowledge

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Konstantin Andreev; [2020]
    Keywords : the self; self-knowledge; self-reflection; selfhood; choice; Sartre; Being and Nothingness; participant perspective; nonfactual prospection; matrix of maybe; alternative futures; L’être et le néant;

    Abstract : The essay is an attempt to make sense of the apparently special relation between self-knowledge and agency. To achieve that goal, the essay translates the account of what it is like to be a human self offered by Sartre into the language of evolutionary psychology. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Sorrows of Young Jude - Sartre’s Concept of Freedom in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Julia Karlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Literature; Sartre; Yanagihara; Existentialis; Freedom; Being and Nothingness; Tragedy; Determinism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life (2015) is about Jude St Francis, a successful lawyer whose inability to recover from his traumatic childhood causes him to commit suicide. This essay investigates why Jude is able to control and alter certain aspects of his life, but how he still is ultimately and finally dominated by his emotional trauma. READ MORE