Faith in the individual, in economics, society, and politics had supplanted faith in the Christian God. Take any intellectual school of the West, we notice that it operates primarily in these realms. This is why for example, we have the Kantian School, the Hegelian School, the Foucauldian School, etc. The first reason: their fabulous but unreal theories did not match the kind of life they themselves led. In the history of Western intellectualism, few people have fallen so miserably in their own lifetime as Jean Paul Sartre.

Source: The Hindu December 18, 2023 12:59 UTC