Jean-Paul Sartre His Life and Philosophy

Jean Paul S where's Vicki Vicky is our French teacher sned in she snowed in great so I can say s the actual name if people who want to know how you say this is John Paul but it is that French R in the back of your throat I can't really do it and I certainly can't do it all night so since Vicki's not here to give me the evil eye I can just say John Paul sucked um born in 1905 is that what it says in your F 1905 good good I got that wrong last time so born in 1905 uh to a solidly middle class family this is the the the key thing or or or Bourgeois family which is probably more accurate we we don't really we never we've never really had a Bourgeois in the United States we have a middle class never had a Bourgeois in the sense of which Europe has had one which is probably a subject for a whole another lecture so he born into a Bersa family which means they have means they have some culture and they truly value education as in and for itself one of the highest things you could achieve was to be highly educated not because you got money for that although there was nothing wrong with it but because receiving the education itself was deemed to be good as in an earlier generation having a son who went into the church or a daughter who was in a nunnery was in and of itself a good thing you would brag to your friends oh well my daughter she's in the convent of our sister of Guadalupe right and that would be sort of a status symbol uh for the Bourgeois on in Continental Europe for about a hundred years give or take it really was a significant achievement to have the kinds of educational status that uh s would go on to achieve amongst others so this is key to keep in mind also key is when he's born notice when he's born 1905 as with victon Stein he's a little older than victon Stein um but they're he's going to live through World War I and World War II the two sort of mountain ranges of the 20th century everything is you can figure from those two events about what's ...