Thursday, October 23, 2008

Sartre wins and declines Nobel Prize

October 22, 1964
In his novels, essays, and plays, Sartre advanced the philosophy of existentialism, arguing that each individual must create meaning for his or her own life, because life itself had no innate meaning.
Thought you would like to know.

2 comments:

ISCC said...

In the 80's there was a cartoon that had a penguin named, Opus, and a kid named, Milo, and the name of it escapes me now, but in one strip, Milo has a realization of sorts and is holding onto the world by one blade of grass....hold on, Milo, hold on shouts Opus...
Hold on, ISCC...hold on.

Kope said...

Bloom County was the name of that cartoon, by Berke Breathed.

I read most of Sartre's work about 2 years ago. Fascinating stuff.