Question

What are Sartre's concepts of anguish, despair, and forlonrnness- please disucss these concepts.

Answer 1

ANS) Sartre conceps of anguish,despair and forlonrnness are the emotions represent by the humans.

n our everyday lives, we tend to throw around the words “anxiety,””dread,” and “despair” interchangeably, substituting one for the other, as in the anxiety we feel before a test, or the dread of losing a competition. These words, in particular, are taken to be the same expression of uneasiness and uncomfortableness, so they find themselves being used frequently and incorrectly. However, these words are each separated by a nuance, and they find their roots, surprisingly, in Existential philosophy, deriving from such eminent thinkers as Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Heidegger, all of whom investigated the essence of man’s existence and his place in the universe. In this post, I will be exploring the philosophical significance of the following moods: angst/anxiety/dread, despair, anguish, forlornness, and nausea.

ANGUISH- is ones own freedom of will and own choice. We are aware of ourselves as being freely choosing beings.As anguish is not synonym to the freedom.Its different in other perspectives.As a good phenomenologists, we cannot deny our own freedom.Freedom also is a type of burden, it is in some sense classified as a terrible freedom.Every choice is equally arbitrary and equally absurd.We have a strong desire for there to be rules or guidelines telling us what to do; or better, we want to automatically do the "right thing".The desire to be God = "The desire to be in-itself-for-itself". We want at the same time to be freely choosing, self-directing, have a conception of our own future, etc., but also want to have no uncertainty, no fallibility, to respond automatically in the right way, just like God.

DESPAIR-It is another concept from Sartre.Even though we feel as if we are choosing for all people; we are aware that others are free and independent; we can never be sure of our actions
With others, we have only probabilities, never certainties
Must concern yourself primarily with your own possibilities
Limit yourself to what you know
Does that lead to Quietism? No.
I’m going to do everything I can to bring something about... I have my own projects which do involve others. (I can't help that.)
I’m not going to sit at home and let others do what I cannot. That's ignoring despair.
We are nothing other than our plan.

FORLONRNNESS- It also means abandonment. Points discussed in Forlonrnness-

1.God does not exist. This makes a difference.
2.Nothing is good a priori
3.Other ethicists try to pretend that they can have absolute good without God. The existentialist does not believe this.
4.No one else is responsible for who we are. We are alone, with no excuses and no justification for our actions.
5.Can't even let feelings be our guide, because they have to be interpreted and weighed.