All Those Useless Passions: On Sartre, love and the sacred
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https://doi.org/10.65828/e8bv1q70Keywords:
Choice, Sartre, existential therapy, the sacredAbstract
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre describes the human being as a 'useless passion', a passion that has no justification for existence. Starting from this premise, I will draw connections between 'uselessness' and the sacred. Could one of the uses of these useless passions be Sartrean choice – the courage of freedom, responsibility and self-determination? Could choice be the antidote to the implicit passivity of the present?
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