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Sartre And Homosexuality

Topic: What is wrong, according to Sartre, with a homosexual saying, "I am a homosexual"? Is Sartre distinguishing two senses of the verb "to be"? Is Sartre correct in thinking that there is always something wrong with making such a statement? Could Sartre’s claim be rephrased in a more plausible form?
Thesis: By virtue of Sartre’s logic, there is in fact always some thing wrong with a homosexual saying, "I am a homosexual." However, by allowing for two distinctions in English for the verb to be, the statement can be made more plausible to a lay person.
According to Sartre, the homosexual is talking with his friend, the "champion of sincerity, " who wants his homosexual friend ...

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that he is a homosexual in the sense of being-in-itself, yet at the same time he would be aware that this was not, in fact, the case.
Another paradigm that we could use is the example of Ex-President Richard Nixon. Nixon’s infamous statement, "I am not a crook," is a nearly perfect example. By stating outright that he is not a crook, Nixon is actually telling the truth. He is saying that though it is true that he may have committed criminal acts, he is not a criminal. There is no deception about himself illustrated by his statement.
The fundamental opposition on which he builds his ontology (According to Webster, the philosophical study of the nature of being) is not that between consciousness and being, but the distinction between two regions of being, only one which can be associated with consciousness. In other words, by virtue of Sartre’s simple example, he is distinguishing two senses of the verb, to be. He speaks of "being-in-itself" and ""being-for-itself", clearly ...

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Added: 9/28/2005 07:09:54 PM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1108
Pages: 5

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