Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind - a podcast by Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

David and Tamler don black turtlenecks and light up a couple of Gauloises to talk about Jean Paul Sartre's classic essay “Existentialism is a Humanism.” Why are choices so fundamental to our experience? What does Sartre mean when he says that “existence precedes essence”? Why does he try to shoehorn universalizability into a view that’s clearly hostile to it?
Plus, how much free time is good for you? Is that even the right question?

Further episodes of Very Bad Wizards

Further podcasts by Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Website of Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro