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  • L'essence or L'existance?

    Hi, I was just wondering the other day how many of you agree with Sartre who claims that existance is more important than essence?
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    I'm not buying BtS until Firaxis impliments the "contiguous cultural border negates colony tax" concept.

  • #2
    Sartre never said that existence is more important than essence, merely that existence precedes essence.

    EDIT: It was people like Camus who founded Existentialism, even though they would have refused to have been identified with it (I can't blame them, Existentialism isn't some popular sensational philosophy, it's a deeply austere technical concept meant for technical philosophers). Sartre simply used it as a form of humanism.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Whaleboy
      Sartre never said that existence is more important than essence, merely that existence precedes essence.
      Yep.
      Blah

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      • #4
        Of course...

        If there is no existence, how can there be essence?!

        Spec.
        -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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        • #5
          But how can there be existence without essence?
          In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.

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          • #6
            Re: L'essence or L'existance?

            Originally posted by _BuRjaCi_
            Hi, I was just wondering the other day how many of you agree with Sartre who claims that existance is more important than essence?
            I don't know or care what the difference is between the two (as he uses them), but far more important than either is bacon

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            • #7
              Essences are what they add to processed foods.
              Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

              It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
              The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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              • #8
                Bacon goes really well with waffles
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                • #9
                  Kuci, and spam goes really well with a vacation of Mingapulco. Take a moment to think about that.
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                  Contact: solver-at-weplayciv-dot-com
                  I can kill you whenever I please... but not today. - The Cigarette Smoking Man

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                  • #10


                    Spec.
                    -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                    • #11


                      That it does. I'm done.

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                      • #12
                        L'essence or L'existance?

                        L'or.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Whaleboy
                          Sartre never said that existence is more important than essence, merely that existence precedes essence.

                          EDIT: It was people like Camus who founded Existentialism, even though they would have refused to have been identified with it (I can't blame them, Existentialism isn't some popular sensational philosophy, it's a deeply austere technical concept meant for technical philosophers). Sartre simply used it as a form of humanism.
                          You are right off-course. But is Sartre's humanism really fesable?
                          I'm not buying BtS until Firaxis impliments the "contiguous cultural border negates colony tax" concept.

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                          • #14
                            You are right off-course. But is Sartre's humanism really fesable?
                            Well that depends. Remember this is a man who became a communist, who's humanism was born of Nazi-occupied Paris, which he once described as being freer than at any other time in history; because one could chose to collaborate or not. If one joined the resistance as he did, if you failed you would be executed in Germany, but you were free to do as you wished as no law could apply to you.

                            I prefer to think of Sartre as the perverse humanism.
                            "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
                            "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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                            • #15
                              L'oreal. beacuse i'm worth it.
                              CSPA

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