All kinds of materialism lead one to treat every man including oneself as an object – that is, as a set of pre-determined reactions, in no way different from the patterns of qualities and phenomena which constitute a table, or a chair or a stone. Our aim is precisely to establish the human kingdom as a pattern of values in distinction from the material world.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Existentialism Is a Humanism
Topic materialism distinction
Date 1946
Language English
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Note Translated by Philip Mairet
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