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Show Williams Examines Sartre In Existentialism Lecture Jean Paul Satre's conception of "Being and Nothingness" and "the nature of the moral choice" were discussed in relation to existentialism, existen-tialism, by Dr. 'Forrest Williams as a part of "Callenge Week." Dr. Williams, associate professor of ohilosophy at the University of Colorado, told his audience in Orson Or-son Spencer Hall there was no exact ex-act definition for the word "existentialism." "exist-entialism." He said for his purposes he would confine himself to first: Jean Paul Sartre's conception that man must be united with his body and yet at the same time "far removed." Likening man to a rose, Dr. Williams Wil-liams said, "To be a rose is first to be identified with the rose and next to negate it. Man is identical with himself, and yet is far removed remov-ed from himself. Thus man has an inner negation of himself." HE SAID, "A rose is itself, not the sun. It is not related to the sun. The sun is external to the rose. Unlike a rose, human beings are internally in-ternally related to themselves. I am a being that experiences myself." my-self." In the second part of his speech, "the nature of the moral choice," Dr. Williams said, quoting Sartre, ''Man is freedom." He said though man is free, the circumstances are fixed. Later in a seminar in the Tanner Tan-ner Room, Dr. Williams said, "In personal relationships compromise compro-mise is unwise, but in politics freedom is a result of compromise." compro-mise." One of the basic premises of existentialism, ex-istentialism, he said, was this idea of freedom. "A man must reaffirm unconditionally the value of freedom." free-dom." DR. WILLIAMS told the audience Tuesday afternoon, there was no formula they could choose by, "each man must choose for himself." him-self." Concluding, Dr. Williams said existentialism ex-istentialism is not a new philosophy. It was built out of old philosophies. "Existentialism is a philosophical position that flows in the mainstreams main-streams of western philosophical tradition." Dr. Williams said a man could not be a Christian and also be an existentialist, but he said some points of existentialism are contained con-tained in the Christian tradition. |