Sartre's View Of Existentialism

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Existentialism is one of the most argued subject of Philosophy. Existentialism is the belief that having awareness, free will, and personal responsibility of the world that individual may obtain a view unique to the average person. This meaning within a world that intrinsically has none of its own. Existentialism started to appear in early Buddhist and Christian writing. In Jean-Paul Sartre’s eyes Existentialism means in the beginning of the human life humans are nothing. It is everyone 's individual choice to make something of themselves. Sartre believed that everyone has a choice with every waking moment of their life.(Sartre, 1967, p. 10) Sartre believed that everyone has “free-will” and nothing is written in stone as some people during …show more content…

He saved as many as one thousand two-hundred German Jews from the Holocaust. Most people see him as a German who empathized for the Jewish people and that was very unusual at this time. A savior to some, and a hero to the rest. Schindler many of saved so many from the Gas chambers and Hitler’s rath. He sheltered many from what most of the rest of German thought was the ultimate destiny of the Jewish race. In some people 's eyes that look back on history of this man seen as a man that just saw an opportunity. Whether or not Oskar Schindler was actually looking out for these people 's well being for the greater good or because it was the right thing to do. Or maybe he was just looking out for his pockets and following his greed. Like every other human being that has been born and will be born Oskar has to face choices every day. Oskar often chose socially immoral actions in his private life such as gambling, womanizing, and drinking. Oskar Schindler at a young age followed his wants, he seeked vices and went after many of the things he should not have. Oskar was a ladies man by any sense of the word. He was a woman chaser, even when he got married at the bright young age of nineteen to Emilie Schindler, he had one or two mistresses he courted at the same time. He also drank and gambled to his heart 's content. When war arose he had a lot of dealing with the SS, and the Nazi party.(Keneally, 1993, p. 20-30) He followed them to Poland, Oskar made quite a few friends with the Gestapo. He was always able to sway them into his favor with any vice they so desired. He gave them money, women, booze, you name it and he provided it to them if it advanced him with power or wealth. With this they provided his with a factory with the cheapest labor he could get. That labor happened to be the Jewish people at the time.(Keneally, 1993, p. 35) All during this he

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