It has varying influence depending on the individual. For the vast majority, they make no difference at all; few today know who Sartre was, much less what he believed.
For myself, I found him confusing. Existentialism in general I find agreeable. But Sartre's pessimism, his constant portrayal in his novels and plays of human beings as directionless automatons, struck me as curiously disconnected from the freedom which existentialism implies.
So in my case, I found his general philosophy liberating and his specific illustrations of it depressing.
And I'd say that anyone who asks "what influence did (any thinker's) beliefs have on our lives" is making a generalization error; individual lives are affected quite, quite differently by the beliefs of any great thinker. My life has been somewhat influenced by the ideas of Morgan Robbins; yours probably not at all.|||why he don't say any word against Stalin???(STALIN KILL MORE HUMAN THAN HITLER)
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