PHIL304: Existentialism

6.3: Sartre's Idea that "Existence Precedes Essence"

• 6.3.1: God Does Not Exist

  • Philosophy Bites: David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton's "Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism" URL

    Listen to this interview. As you listen, pay particular attention to Warnock's analysis of Sartre's claim that God does not exist and the role that Sartre assigns to this revelation for the sake of our everyday human affairs.
    

• 6.3.2: There Is No Human Nature

  • Dr. Walter Kaufmann's "Sartre and the Crisis in Morality" URL

    Listen to both parts of this lecture. As you listen, pay particular attention to Sartre's view of the idea that existence precedes essence.