Write a roughly 1500 argumentative essay on one of the topics below and a 1-2 page handout accompanying the essay:
1. Sartrecharacterizesourrelationship with the Other as, in part, an attempt to achievesomethingimpossible. Doyouagree with Sartre’s account? Why or why not?
3. What would Sartre say is “wrong”—or “right”—with the Underground Man? Do you agree with Sartre’s take? Why or why not?
5. If Sartre is correct about the formal character of our fundamental project, is Kierkegaardian despair unavoidable no matter what—that is, whether God does or does not exist? Is Sartre in fact correct?
Requirements: 1500-2000
i will be attaching a sample draft of what the additional 2 page handout should consist of — its like a detailed outline. Also will attach my notes from class.
work on this:
Answer previewsome form (Stevens, 2008). Despite this, people cannot notice their being-for-themselves, considering, as Sartre argues, this will be a basic mode of being. Sartre also posited that others free consciousness exists that objectifies and makes judgments about people via the Look. Furthermore, people’s comprehension of being looked at by other people is what Sartre attributes as the source of a person’s identity (Stevens, 2008). In essence, without awareness of the presence of other people, individuals cannot become an object of their consciousness. Sartre grounds his conceptualization of individual identity in a negative light, such as shame and fall (Stevens, 2008). This approach is mistaken, considering the look Sartre argues leads to the discovery of personal identity, is not motivated by hostility from the Other. Instead, people cannot treat other individuals as pure subjects any more than they can do pure objects.
Due to this, people will feel the need to partly objectify others and vice versa. This is the phenomenon Sartre alludes to when arguing that being-for-others is characterized by conflict;
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