Interesting fact: Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution. This is from Being and Nothingness --> Sartre contends that human existence is a conundrum whereby each of us exists, for as long as we live, within an overall condition of nothingness (no thing-ness)—that ultimately allows for free consciousness. But simultaneously, within our being (in the physical world), we are constrained to make continuous, conscious choices.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:49:56 +0000
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