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Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist is a book by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1953 by Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge, it was Murdoch's first book and the first book about Jean-Paul Sartre's work to be published in English.


“The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.”

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 137

“All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.”

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 127

“The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.”

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 7, p. 113

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