Philosophy 101
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The word philosophy means love of wisdom.
To Sartre, the inherent freedom of consciousness is both a gift and a curse. While freedom can allow one to make a change and shape his life, there is also a responsibility that comes along with it.
Pleasure and pain are the only important elements of the specific phenomena the theories describe.
While there are some very famous Christian and Jewis philosophers who use existentialist themes in their work, on the whole, existentialism is commonly associated with atheism.
The only way to have meaning and value is through making choices and taking responsibility.
The 1999 blockbuster movie The Matrix is loosely based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
Sartre believed that all individuals have an essential freedom and that people are responsible for their actions, their consciousness, and all aspects of their self. Even if an individual wishes not to be held responsible for himself, according to Sartre, that is a conscious decision, and he is responsible for the results of his inaction.
Based on this notion, Sartre explains that ethics and morals are subjective and related to an individual’s conscience. Therefore, there could never be any type of universal ethics or morality.