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The individual, Sartre declared, is a ‘singular universal’. He or she is a unique exemplification of the total culture, the ‘objective mind’ of a period but not a passive product of it. Each one, from a particular position within a given society, totalises his/her experience and in doing so acts so as to modify the world. It is not only the actions of the famous but the innumerable choices of the ‘nameless dead’ that have made a historical era what we now assert that it was. Sartre was acutely aware of himself as a singular universal. It would be impossible for us to dissociate his philosophy from the history of Europe in this century. One is tempted to say that the reverse is also true.
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Barnes, H.E. (1989). Sartre. In: Cavalier, R.J., Gouinlock, J., Sterba, J.P. (eds) Ethics in the History of Western Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20203-4_11
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