سارتر و مساله خلقت

Sartre and the Issue of Creation

The French philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre, held that creation ex nihilo is impossible and is generated by some kind of projection. In Being and Nothingness, he makes an argument against the creation which is divided into two parts. The first part of the argument presents an analogy between divine and human consciousness and concludes that the divine consciousness as the human consciousness, cannot constitute its object and thus creating the world by God is inpossible. The second part is a dilemma against creation. In the divine creative act either the creature takes on its own proper being or it does not. In the first case, the creature is completely distinct from God and does not preserve the least trace of divine creation. In the second case, the creature is part of the creator and dissolves in him. The article concludes by considering the critiques of Sartreʹs argument that his various commentators have made.