Human Emotion in Sartre

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In this article, the writer considers Sartre's views on human emotions and places them within the context of his larger philosophy to show that he accounts for emotions in much the same way that he accounts for thought, action, and will in the first place. The writer points out that Sartre places primacy on freedom to think and act. Several objections to his views are offered and dealt with to prove his points.

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"Jean-Paul Sartre, in the works titled Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions and Existentialism and Human Emotions, develops his theory of emotions and attempts to tie this critical aspect of human nature to his philosophy of human agency and existence in a chaotic world. He argues that people choose emotions through a process of transforming perspectives to accommodate the material world as they find it, and that emotions are therefore willful acts to be controlled and ordered in order to be more fully integrated into a person's approach to life. This paper will briefly outline Sartre's view of the emotions (within the larger context of existentialism) and will consider a number of objections to those views in light of how Sartre might have answered them."

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