This is the most horrifying book I ever read....but I enjoyed it so much...because you have to live in the moment to read it ...the book was like reading 8 mins a page the least ...and reading slow I still barely grasped 30 percent of it...but what I did grasp is so refreshing on life. What are we ?? What to we tell ourselves and why to we tell ourselves certain lies...?( If you exist you have to exist all the way)....because of that one sentence in Nausea .....I read a 800 page book every word not rushing ....
I heard someone talk about about the meaning Sartre associated with slime and it intrigued me enough to read the book. It was very slow going for me as well and I’m still working on it even after finishing the text
Hey Randy! I’d say that there are some similarities, but Sartre is not examining the subject of time through the lens of physics. Since Being and Nothingness is a phenomenological study it focuses on appearances- how things ‘seem to be’ to a conscious being. The method of studying consciousness as opposed to things as they are in themselves allows us to approach any topic with the limits of our perception and intellect in mind.
When I first picked up this book considering reading it, I found it intimidating. Once I started it is like walking waist-deep in molasses. Understanding it piecemeal here and there, it is certainly horrifying.
Dear Rob - many thanks for your guidance! Your scholarship and the clarity that you bring are much appreciated. So helpful!
Thank you!!
I feel like a child in the woods when I listen to this.
His reference to Poincarés formula was pretty brilliant
This is the most horrifying book I ever read....but I enjoyed it so much...because you have to live in the moment to read it ...the book was like reading 8 mins a page the least ...and reading slow I still barely grasped 30 percent of it...but what I did grasp is so refreshing on life. What are we ?? What to we tell ourselves and why to we tell ourselves certain lies...?( If you exist you have to exist all the way)....because of that one sentence in Nausea .....I read a 800 page book every word not rushing ....
I heard someone talk about about the meaning Sartre associated with slime and it intrigued me enough to read the book. It was very slow going for me as well and I’m still working on it even after finishing the text
This section drove me nuts ....refecting on refection...while reflection reflection ....screw you satre...
Your breakdown here, of this very difficult material, is wonderfully clear. Thank you.
Thank you!
Time is light?
Hey Randy! I’d say that there are some similarities, but Sartre is not examining the subject of time through the lens of physics. Since Being and Nothingness is a phenomenological study it focuses on appearances- how things ‘seem to be’ to a conscious being. The method of studying consciousness as opposed to things as they are in themselves allows us to approach any topic with the limits of our perception and intellect in mind.
@@robsamartino71 Time is change, information processing like from a frame to a frame, we basically live in a computer game.
When I first picked up this book considering reading it, I found it intimidating. Once I started it is like walking waist-deep in molasses. Understanding it piecemeal here and there, it is certainly horrifying.
Glad you came back to the project!