PHIL 355 Paper topics-3rd paper McCann Spring 2003

Specifications: Please write a 5-7 page paper on one of the following topics; be sure to mention, and analyze, particular passages from the works. Paper is due May 8, 2003

1. In Being and Nothingness pp. 423-9 Sartre discusses the instrumental character of the body, and its relation to objects taken as instrumentalities. Explain how this discussion is supposed to reveal the facticity of the body, and how it is supposed to give a concrete understanding of being-in-the-world. What are the parallels Sartre draws between the case of action, discussed here, and the case of sensation discussed just prior to this? Relate this discussion to the later discussion of instrumentality and alienation in the section titled 'Third Ontological Dimension of the Body' (Being and Nothingness pp. 461-4.

2. Provide a detailed analysis of a crucial passage or interchange in No Exit, and relate the dynamics of the scene to particular analyses in Part three, chapter three of Being and Nothingness (titled 'Concrete relations with Others').

3. Discuss the similarities and differences between love and sexual desire as different types of concrete relations with others (Being and Nothingness pp. 474-517. Why are both doomed to failure, according to Sartre? Are these accounts convincing?