
Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism
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Sarge - The Incomprehensible Philosopher
In his later work, Sartre for me became incomprehensible. A lot of his later work was written while he was taking speed. It seems to have had quite a bad effect on his writing. I admire him most for his having embraced the philosophy of Husserl and the German phenomenologists who thought you couldn't separate the intellect from the emotions. He has been forgotten but what he did historically is open our eyes to the fact that moral philosophy could be an exciting subject involved in emotional questions as well.
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