What made Jean-Paul Sartre a philosopher?

Question

Just curious?
(in other words, what made him so famous?)

Answer 1

Being and Nothingness. In that work, Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to straighten out a question that had eluded Descartes, Kant and Leibniz, and to a lesser extent Heidegger and Bergson: What is the relation of being to its nothingness? Bergson, for example' posited the act of duration, in which organization is melodic, involving a multiplicity of interpretations. Anyone who has been in a meetings, knows there are always competing perspectives and interpretations of events. Sartre, however, points out that if we talk of "temporality" then duration, as a multiplicity of interpretations, must presuppose "an organizing act" (Sartre, 1956: 135). Kant, in contrast to Bergson, did not see a synthesis in a multiplicity and the organizing act. At issue, for organization theory, is the terrain of "collective memory." For Bergson, the past interpretations cling to those of the present, penetrating the present in the form of memory, which is "ekstatically in the Past." What is ekstatic? For, Sartre's theory of temporality and organizing, ekstatic is not one, but three dimensions. And this is one of many contributions he makes in Being and Nothingness. To understand ekstatic, you will need a bit of vocabulary. I will work through an example of being David, not being Dave, and the nothingness of Dave and David. Believe it or not, Sartre speaks to the soul of human beings, to our habits of drinking, work, and dress, to the fashioning of our life style. Anyone who has experienced divorce, alcoholism, or workaholism can understand Sartre without translation. In the following vocabulary, I will point this out, and end with organizing and managing examples, for what is said about Being and Nothingness for Dave and David, can also be said of organizing and managing, and organization studies.

Answer 2

Jean Paul Sartre, French novelist, playwright, Nobel Prize Literature winner and exponent of Existentialism,a philosophy acclaiming the freedom of the individual human being.
According to Existentialism:
Existence is always personal and individual, that is, always my existence, your existence, his existence.
Existence is primarily the problem of Being
Existence is also the investigation of the meaning of Being. This investigation is continually faced with diverse possibilities, from among which the human Being must make a selection, to which he must then commit himself.
In addition, Sartre also taught that with social freedom comes social responsibility.

Answer 3

Beacause he was a student of Philosophy and had a major influence on how humans thought of life and existence. But it wasn't just his study of philosophy that made him famous he was also a playwright and a face to the ideals of French existentialism which was a major philosophical movement in the 50's and 60's. His works are still studied today.

Answer 4

Sarte and myself never got along in college. I disagree with him and I told that to my instructor. He helped me transfer to literature but he bothered me there as well. Have you read Camus's the outsider by the way?