Sartre on the Nobel Prize (1964)

Re:Sartre on the Nobel Prize (1964) by spectrum on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:10AM (#8436596)

Richard Feynman on the Nobel prize when the interviewer asks him if his research was worth the Nobel prize that he won: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZF4vBreqmE

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Re:Sartre on the Nobel Prize (1964) by mironathetin on Friday October 10, 2014 @04:41AM (#8436792)

Feynman is splendid, like always. For my understanding, his reasoning is much clearer and less artificially complex than Sartres.

Thanks for posting this.

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Re:Sartre on the Nobel Prize (1964) by stephancoral on Friday October 10, 2014 @11:36AM (#8438255)

Sarte's reasoning is pretty simple: he doesn't want to become a component of an institution. He wants to be able to write as Jean-Paul Sartre, not Jean-Paul Sartre the Nobel Prize winner.

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Re:Sartre on the Nobel Prize (1964) by hueving on Sunday October 12, 2014 @01:24AM (#8444488)

That thinking is flawed though. A prize doesn't define you by accepting it. When I am given a birthday cake, I don't then become "heuving, the receiver of birthday cakes".

The only reason that really makes sense to decline a prize is if you are heavily opposed to what the institution represents. However, he didn't strike me as anti-intellectual.

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