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In Socrates Meets Sartre, Kreeft takes the reader through the world of existentialist philosophy, posing questions that challenge Sartre’s existentialist concepts. Based on a fictional dialogue between Socrates and Sartre that takes place in the afterlife, this profound and witty book makes an entertaining and informative exploration of modern philosophy.
your whole philosophy in one word: “Existentialism”. What, essentially, does it mean? SARTRE: As I explained in the book, it means that “existence precedes essence.” SOCRATES: That sounds like a formula from the metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas. SARTRE: It is metaphysical, but it is certainly not Thomistic. It is not what he might mean by it, namely an analysis of the metaphysical structure of all finite beings, culminating in the claim that existence is the supreme actuality and that essence is
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