Sartre and Camus

Question 1

Sartre’s 1st belief

Answer 1

1. There are no absolute moral values

Question 2

Sartre’s 2nd belief

Answer 2

2. The world is neutral, facts and events do not have meaning - only those meanings that man has attached to them

Question 3

Sartre’s 3rd belief

Answer 3

3. If we consider something to be immoral, it does not mean that it is actually immoral, but only that we have chosen to label it as such

Question 4

Sartre’s famous belief

Answer 4

‘man is adrift in a world with no purpose. Therefore, man is free and responsible only for himself. Man has a duty to find his own values and act in accordance with them.

Question 5

Camus’ 1st belief

Answer 5

1. Absurdity arises out of the gap between what man aspires for and the meaningless universe into which he is born

Question 6

Camus’ 2nd belief

Answer 6

Man’s problem is to find his own way and set of standards in a world of chaos

Question 7

Camus’ 3rd belief

Answer 7

3. The modern world makes no sense/is absurd

Question 8

Camus’ 4th belief

Answer 8

4. Man is threatened by isolation, cut off from his fellow human beings by the difficulties of communication