Jean-Paul Sartre in his early life has been described as a small, cross-eyed boy. He had lost his father at a young age, which he then moved into his grandfather’s house to be raised by his mother and grandfather. Because of his physical features as a child, he was left out of many things and it was hard for him to make friends. As he grew older, he attended different universities and eventually attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he finished first in his class and developed a lifelong friendship with Simone de Beauvoir. It has been noted that he didn’t believe in marriage, so Sartre and Beauvoir shared a simple intimate relationship for a number of years.
In 1939, Sartre was drafted into war, and later was captured and became a prisoner of war. Once released from captivity, he committed his life to strengthen his political views and gave up teaching to focus entirely on his writing. He expressed his views on freedom and his religious perspectives through his writings. It has been said that the war caused him to strengthen his views on these matters and voiced them more publically now. Sartre has been described as not only a philosopher, but also a playwright and novelist. Some of his writings include Nausea (1938), Being and Nothingness (1943), The Flies (1943),
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He developed a method or a stage of five arguments for the existence of God. Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life living as an atheist and giving reason for not needing a god. Aquinas’ cosmological arguments for existence of God are as follows: 1. Motion or a “Prime Mover”, aka God. 2. Cause – 1st cause, aka efficient cause. 3. Existence and non existence – “creation out of nothing.” 4. Graduation – He decides what is right or wrong, good or bad, aka God. 5. Design – The Ultimate designer, aka Design Argument. Aquinas put this argument together. Due to the fact that Sartre is an atheist, he coming dismissed and rejects the works of