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Others are hell, we create ourselves. Jean-Paul Sartre Let's start with a curious question ???? ???? When we look inside ourselves, do you prefer to discover a self or to create that self? If you say I am a "discovery", you are on the side of Descartes, you have positioned me as an essence. If you say I am a "creation", you are somewhere close to Sartre. Can we find meaning in a world without God? After all, Nietzsche had killed God before. If there is no before and after to this world, if we are "thrown into the world", if all experience is the choices we make freely here, can we create meaning by creating our own values? Let's continue; stop for a moment, look around you and choose the first object that catches your eye. A bottle, a glass or an eraser, whatever. Coffee or cookies will do... Now say "bottle" or "coffee" 20 times, digesting it... Do you feel alienated after repeating it a few times? If these questions and the pangs of meaning of existence seem close to you, we can start talking about Jean Paul Sartre through the lens of curiosity. This week, we are hosting Sartre, whom we have been waiting for a long time on the Board of Directors, here you go ???? 00:09 Getting Started 02:39 Life Story 08:47 Sartre 101 16:13 We are on the Board of Directors #curiosity #philosophy #philosophyontheboard #sartre Notes for the curious: ???? Jean Paul Sartre - Nausea (La Nausée) ???? Existentialists' Coffee: Freedom, Existence and Apricot Cocktails - Sarah Bakewell ???? Waking Life (2001) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/... ???? Mr. Nobody (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/... ???? Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) (1957) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050986/...