#156 - Sartre: Robert C. Solomon on Existential Philosophy, Responsibility, Sartre's Experience as a POW, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Phenomenology, Bad Faith, and Why We Are Doomed to Be Free

“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.”

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, 1938.

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00:00:00 Intro

00:00:33 Sartre: Life and WW2

00:30:33 The Emotions and Responsibility

01:00:28 Phenomenology & Consciousness

01:30:54 Bad Faith and Inauthenticity

02:01:14 Being-for-Others & "No Exit"

02:31:14 Love & the Romantic Life

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon