Jean-Paul Sartre: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Jean-Paul Sartre, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

Sartre said you're not born with a purpose — you have to invent one
Jean-Paul Sartre argued that unlike a manufactured tool, designed for a purpose before it's built, a human being simply exists first, with no built-in essence or nature dictating w…
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism
A waiter who acts too much like a waiter is lying to himself, Sartre said
In Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean-Paul Sartre describes a café waiter whose every gesture is a little too precise, a little too eager, a little too solicitous, performing the r…
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

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