Question

Existentialist Jean Paul-Sartre’s uses the term _______ to denote the psychological pain one feels upon authentically believing that everything is pointless.

Answer 1

The correct answer is nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher and critic. He is considered one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century and representative of existentialist philosophy, alongside philosophers Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir.

Sartre was an avid reader and writer. He produced philosophical texts, novels, novels, short stories and essays.

His most outstanding work is entitled “The Being and the Nothing: essay on phenomenological ontology”, published in 1943

This philosophical treatise addresses Heidegger's philosophy and some thoughts on human freedom. However, it was essential to configure his own theory about existentialism.

According to Sartre, the human being exists as a thing and a conscience (mind).

In 1938, he published the novel “Nausea”, his first literary success:

"Men. You have to love men. Men are admirable. I feel like throwing up - and suddenly here it is: Nausea. So this is Nausea: this blinding evidence? I exist - the world exists - and I know the world exists. That is all. But it doesn't matter to me. It is strange that everything is so indifferent to me: it scares me. I would like so much to abandon myself, to stop being aware of my existence, to sleep. But I can't, I suffocate: existence penetrates me everywhere, through the eyes, through the nose, through the mouth… And suddenly, suddenly, the veil is torn: I understood, I saw. Nausea has not abandoned me, and I don't think it will leave me anytime soon; but I am no longer subjected to it, it is no longer a disease, nor a passing access: Nausea is me. ”

Answer 2

Answer:

Nausea

Explanation:

Jean Paul Sartre was a french philosopher and writer who is considered one of the main existentialists from the twentieth century.

His philosophy is based on the statement that "humans are condemned to be free" meaning that we are thrown into this world with no specific purpose and yet are free to choose our whole lives (something that is intrinsic to existence).

He also stated that our lives are meaningless and pointless since we are all going to die at the end. He wrote a novel called "The nausea" in which the main character, at some point understands the pointlessness of his own life and this creates him psychological pain and nausea. This novel is one of the most classic ones from the Existentialist school.

Therefore, Sartre uses the term nausea to denote the psychological pain one feels upon authentically believing that everything is pointless.