Essays about: "Sartre"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word Sartre.
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1. Tabooing Dirty Hands?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : 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
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2. In Favour of Sartre’s Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE
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3. An Existential reading of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : 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
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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 filosofiAbstract : 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
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5. The Sorrows of Young Jude - Sartre’s Concept of Freedom in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : 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