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Mariellyssa Wenk's picture

what we want...

In response to Jean-Paul Sartre's "fact" that "We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are," I agree that it is nearly impossible to know exactly what we want at any given time. It is much easier to know what we DON'T want in life, so it makes more sense to look at getting to what we want as a process of elimination. This can easily be compared to evolution as it too is a process of finding what it wrong to possibly reach what is "right."
I am still aslo confused about what beauty is. Like Karen said, everybody is going to define beauty differently. So, in my oppinion we're just reading one person's ideas of beauty and comparing it to our own.

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