![]() ![]() Thus all there is is the material and the empirical and when one pushes this aside, one does not find God as 'hidden treasure' or a 'lamp in a niche' or as for Kant the 'moral law' but nothing, the void - a blankness. Sartres innovation is to turn turn the two terms around so that existence precedes essence one exists first and it is through existing in the world and it's commitments that's ones essence is formed. ![]() ![]() Mans essence being his soul one can say that being in the world existence draws out his essence in a similar way that in Platos a Dialogue The Theatatus Socrates draws out what in essence was already there.Īn old tradition stated that through introspection one can discover the hidden divine realm consider for example in the Islamic tradition Al-Hallajs utterance Ana al-Haq (I am the truth - truth being a name of God - for which he was executed) which has parallels in the Christian and Indian traditions.īut after the death-of-god theology of Nietzsche this realm evaporated so as Haydon explains that when Sartre looked within and 'pushing aside memory, knowledge and sensation' he found nothing and he turned this into the philosophical concept of Nothingness. Thomist philosophy held that essence preceded existence, apart from God whose essence was existence and this in line with a conception of God as the necessary being whereas humans and all else are contingent. ![]()
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