Work · Jean-Paul Sartre
Truth and Existence
Sartre examines disclosure, ignorance and refusing knowledge as active relationships to the world and others.
Understanding the text
A 1948 manuscript published posthumously, between ontology and ethical inquiry.
Key points
- 01
Disclosure
Truth appears through activity making being manifest.
- 02
Ignorance
Not knowing can be imposed, organized or chosen; these situations are not morally identical.
- 03
Transmission
Telling truth involves the freedom of those addressed.
How to read it
Distinguish constituting meaning from things' existence; believing alone does not create truth.
Editions & sources
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