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This lecture was taken from nigelwarburton.typepad.com/ and is intended to inform. All rights belong to him. Nigel Warburton is a lecturer at the Open University. Some of his books include -- Philosophy: The Basics (4th ed.), Philosophy: The Classics (3rd ed.) Thinking from A to Z (3rd ed.), Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide, and The Art Question; he also edited Philosophy: Basic Readings, second edition and is co-author of Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 -- April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy. Some of his books include; • L'Imagination (Imagination: A Psychological Critique), 1936 • La Transcendance de l'égo (The Transcendence of the Ego), 1937 • La Nausée (Nausea), 1938 • Le Mur (The Wall), 1939 • Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions (Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions), 1939 • L'Imaginaire (The Imaginary), 1940, lit. "The Unconscious" • Les Mouches (The Flies), 1943 - a modern version of the Oresteia • L'Être et le néant (Being and Nothingness), 1943 • Réflexions sur la question juive (Anti-Semite and Jew; literally, Reflections on the Jewish Question), 1943 SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Paul_Sartre Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities—particularly rationality. It is a component of a variety of more specific philosophical systems and is incorporated into several religious schools of thought. Humanism entails a commitment to the search for truth and morality through human means in support of human interests. In focusing on the capacity for self-determination, Humanism rejects the validity of transcendental justifications, such as a dependence on belief without reason, the supernatural, or texts of allegedly divine origin. Humanists endorse universal morality based on the commonality of the human condition, suggesting that solutions to human social and cultural problems cannot be parochial. SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism(Less)