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A 2 page research paper that compares and contrasts the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre with that of Rene Descartes. In so doing, the writer basically looks at the differences between the Enlightenment and the postmodern era. Bibliography lists 2 sources. 90sar&des.wps
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with any certainty?that being the knowledge of his own existence as a thinker of thoughts (Ree 205). From this philosophical position, Descartes spun out?in a "spider-like" fashion?the modern world (Ree
205). This was a world of abstract thinking. It was not a philosophy that encompassed flesh, taste, and smells, but rather addressed itself to the conformity of universal causal
laws (Ree 205). When Husserl began the phenomenological movement at the start of this century, he discredited this model of living (Ree 206). Jean-Paul Sartre described Husserls "fundamental idea"
as being a principle of intentionality (Ree 206). By this, he meant that subjectivity need not, and some would argue could not, be described in terms of a hidden "inner
life" (Ree 206). In contract to the scientific subjectivity of Descartes Enlightenment, which ushered in the modern scientific era, this philosophy stated that subjectivity was simply to experience the
world (Massey 1148). Sartre, and others, saw this as a closed circle?the world was what subjectivity experiences; consequently, the only real way to demonstrate subjectivity was to describe the world
(Ree 206). Ree states that twentieth-century approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictured life as occurring
completely within the mind. Sartre, on the other hand, said, "You can see this tree...But you do not see it in your mind. You see it right where it is:
by the side of the road, amidst the dust, alone and twisted in the heat, twenty miles from the Mediterranean coast" (Ree 207). Sartre did not see consciousness and
the world as separate entities as did Descartes. Rather, his philosophy pictured them as ideal lovers who exist only for each other (Ree 207). Consciousness, in this viewpoint, does not
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