@SimonBirch
Are you somehow claiming that there are 'innocent' people who have NOT eaten from the 'tree of knowledge!??' If so, I'd suggest you file a lawsuit immediately against whoever was teaching the 'Core Humanities' course you took in college because Genesis makes it VERY clear that such innocence is NOT possible until later in Revelation we understand that a NEW innocence will be attained with the second coming of Christ. I'd go ahead and file that lawsuit against that hippie professor this afternoon if you have time!
#28
"Sartre converted to Catholicism on his death bed, and disavowed all or at least most his writings." * How? Why?
"I don't think he fought in the Spanish anything war" * Maybe not, but Le Mur is situated there and many intellectuals went to fight there in the international brigades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brigades
"he did sort of fight in WWII but was overtaken by German forces and spent much of that "fighting" time in a POW camp." Indeed
"If you ever see what Sartre looked like on film it's pretty difficult to imagine him actually physically fighting in a war."
He was partially blind at the end of his life. Appearance is not everything. Many who did not look like it fought in wars as resistance fighters.
@tpr
In terms of his conversion I don't really know the answer to 'why.' Most Sartre experts that I've talked to just kind of write-off this last element of his life as just the ramblings of a 'crazy old man about to die.' I think there could be more to it than that. For example, I think "Being and Time" by Heidegger is actually a very in-depth understanding of Martin Luther's "Bondage of the Will" except with God taken out of it. I think Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" could be a secularized religious book about Jesuit theology, and perhaps Sartre struggled his whole life with atheism vs Catholicism. But, this is just me speculating. No one knows why he converted. And the end of people's lives can be more crazy than rational.