Friday, December 2, 2011

How would you compare and contrast Baron D'Holbach Jean Paul Sartre?

Anything would help!|||Baron D'Holbach was a "determinist": What the determinist believes: there is only one course of events possible in the universe - the parts of the universe are already laid down in an absolute way - nothing occurs by chance or in a manner different from one that is already prescribed to happen. "Any other future complement than the one fixed from eternity is impossible."





Jean Paul Sartre was an Existentialists: 鈥搉oun Philosophy. a philosophical attitude associated esp. with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism and empiricism, that stresses the individuals unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices.





Based on what I quick look, I would say that:





Baron D'Holbach's beliefs were that the universe had a set order that guided it's destination based on the laws of physics, humankind being part of the universe, could not change those laws leading him to feel that our individual destiny was in a sense, pre-determined or pre-destined.





Jean Paul Sartre believed that people could change their destiny, by interacting with it.





To surmise, Baron D'Holbach thought "in the box", Jean Paul Sartre thought "outside the box", when you compare the two individuals philosophy.

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