Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclina… - Jean-Paul Sartre

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Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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About Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.

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Pen Names: Jacques Guillemin

Alternative Names: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre • Jean Paul Sartre • J.P. Sartre • J.-P. Sartre • Sartre

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