Hello:
Sartre Started out studying Phenomenology and then grew it into/discovered existentialism and then he eventually pushed this aside to lead a more active life...which is to say activist.
His study of existentialism pretty much says that as humans we are alone because of the nature of out consciousness separated by it from other people (we cannot know their consciousness nor can they know ours). This separation causes fear and despair because it tells us we are actually alone in the universe...separated from everything in the world. Now when we look at other people it is tough to see a person...what we more often see is a role...friend, mother, son and so on...so what happens is whenever we are looked at we know in some way what the other person expects of us so we have a tendency to stop being just ourselves and try to live in whatever role they envision for us. In this philosophy meaning comes from the individual and they must find their place in the world by recreating themselves with in constantly.
Eventually Sartre started not finishing books and spent a large amount of time being an activist rather than worrying about theory (n part this is a portion of his existentialist moral philosophy...we life in this world and it is the world we all choose...so if we don't like it then we are obligated to change it.
I hope this helps
Rev Phil
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