From: "Steve D'Arcy" <sdarcy-AT-yorku.ca> Subject: Re: Men making men, eh, who needs women... Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:47:04 -0400 Just to clear up one thing: Sartre certainly DID claim that "man makes himself"; indeed he claimed it incessantly. In fact, even in Search for a Method, a late (post-existentialist) work, Sartre attributes the view that human beings make themselves to "the ideology of existence," which was his name (at that time) for his former view (which he often explicates via Kierkegaard commentary). In case, for some reason, anyone wishes to read an example, here is one: "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first prinicple of existentialism." (Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism") Steve. ----- Original Message -----
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