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To: JohnM who wrote (180887)	2/1/2012 2:44:49 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541692

<< I am not sure what you are saying? <<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.>> I don't understand this line of thought? It was important to every great mind I ever read. They sure talked about it enough. <<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.>> Yes, that is what I said to Bread. Darwin birthed that uncertainty. Existentialism attempted to address it. But there are other diminsions to existentialism e.g. Sartre was clear in his book Nausea that he was talking about that feeling one gets in their stomach when realize they are looking at a meaningless void. But other things evolved out of existential thought e.g. what is the right decision when confronted with a delima? Whatever decision you make, or how do we establish our validity absent a god? By how we live our lives. <<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.>> My guess is that Sartre read Keirkegaard, like Nietzsche read the ancient Greeks, and Einstein read all the work of important physicist's and mathematicians of the time, to gather as much intelligent thought as they could.