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To: koan who wrote (180861)	2/1/2012 9:50:10 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541673

I am not sure what you are saying here? Sartre was a hard core athiest. Read his book Nausea. Whether one is an atheist or not is largely irrelevant in these discussions, though I can appreciate how that might be hard to believe. All of this work is attempting to deal with the questions of the meaning of life, to repeat myself, within contemporary thought. Which, more particularly, is to argue that ancient convictions about the cosmic structure were inessential at best. Thus, "the death of god", which appears often in these conversations, was, in my view, more about the loss of that certainty than about some fictional being. My own guess is that Sartre was reading Kierkegaard as one more attempt to move away from Hegelian thought (Sartre's early teachers were in that tradition). And liked what he read.