Comments on: Response to Sartre’s Nausea http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/280 Writings of Gavin C. Schmitt Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:28:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: TJ Lewis http://www.framingbusiness.net/archives/280/comment-page-1#comment-20509 TJ Lewis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:02:47 +0000 http://framingbusiness.net/2007/response-to-sartres-nausea/#comment-20509 Gavin, Im writig a paper over this very topic. Hopefully you will reply in due time. My thesis invovles the Cartesian/Sartrean discovery of the Cogito. Descartes wants to say there are more certainties in life. Sartre says we are shit out of luck and that the only thing one can be certain of is that "I exist." My thesis attempts to switch Sartre's view but still maintaining an 'existence precedes essence' viewpoint. Basically, I agree with existentialism, but I do not and cannot, give in to the fact that there is nothing more. I feel existential claims/results could entail that one can be very certain of other 'things' in the universe. How would I go about doing this? I use a lot of Beauvoir in my paper, but Im currently at a standstill. Any advice would make my day--no, make my semester. :) TJ Gavin,
Im writig a paper over this very topic. Hopefully you will reply in due time. My thesis invovles the Cartesian/Sartrean discovery of the Cogito. Descartes wants to say there are more certainties in life. Sartre says we are shit out of luck and that the only thing one can be certain of is that “I exist.” My thesis attempts to switch Sartre’s view but still maintaining an ‘existence precedes essence’ viewpoint. Basically, I agree with existentialism, but I do not and cannot, give in to the fact that there is nothing more. I feel existential claims/results could entail that one can be very certain of other ‘things’ in the universe. How would I go about doing this? I use a lot of Beauvoir in my paper, but Im currently at a standstill. Any advice would make my day–no, make my semester. :)

TJ

]]>