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Cadzao Posted 18 years ago
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Appeal to the wisdom of the people

0In 01i00Existentialism and Humanism 02i01a05000 02a00 Sartre wrote:02br
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00"Those who can quite well keep down a novel by Zola such as 01i00La Terre02i00 are sickened as soon as they read an existentialist novel. 01font01b00Those who appeal to the wisdom of the people, which is a sad wisdom, find ours sadder still02b02font00." 02br
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00Could you please rephrase the red sentence so that I can understand it clearly?02br
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00Thank you.02br
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0Hi, Cadzao. So, that expression seems to be a philosophers' stone. And there are some way to understand it but there is no just one to be clear.

— Fandorin

  • 0Hi, Cadzao.
  • So, that expression seems to be a philosophers' stone.
  • And there are some way to understand it but there is no just one to be clear.
  • Firstly, the mean of the word "sad" is equally to the word "silly, foolish".
  • So that I can explain it as : Those who try to conceal their lack of brain under the sad wisdom exhibit their folly.
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0Hi, Cadzao. So, that expression seems to be a philosophers' stone. And there are some way to understand it but there is no just one to be clear. Firstly, the mean of the word "sad" is equally to the word "silly, foolish". So that I can explain it as : Those who try to conceal their lack of brain under the sad wisdom exhibit their folly. They may want to lull the conscience. Who have something
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0Cadzao, you must read Zola and Camus to really understand this. 02br
00No, I do 01b00not02b00 agree with the above interpretation.02br
00No, sad is sad here. It's about the view of the world, and about being pessimistic. 02br
00My reading:02br
01i00There are some who can read realistic novels by Zola but are ma
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0Thank you so much, Marius Hancu, for the very clear and useful explanation. And thank you, Fandorin, for helping me.02br
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