Is Sartres existential epistemology analytic or synthetic?
This is a really tough question to answer. Sartre wrote in the French rationalist tradition such as did Descartes if we are to rely on his own statements. Descartes wrote about propositions though. He would string together analytic propositions and consider their logical relation. At least he did so in The Meditations. Jean Paul Sartre did not pursue such a linguistic philosophy of the analysis of analytic propositions as a proof of self existence. GA_googleFillSlotWithSize(HELAD_publishercode, “ArticleATFMiddleArticle300x250”, 300, 250); Perhaps we should stipulate right off that it would be convenient to accept that Sartre’s existentialist works abandon the analytic/synthetic distinction, and did so before Quine formally abandoned that position. If Sartre has also abandoned the subject-object distinction in Being and Nothingness and the Critique of Dialectical Reason has he done so subjectively as a philosophical point or explicitly saying that fundamentally there is no difference be
