Philosophical concept
Despair
For Sartre, despair means calibrating action to what actually depends on us, without treating a hoped-for outcome as an advance guarantee.
- Works
- 79
- Passages
- 458
- Thinkers
- 28
- Traditions
- 14
Understand uses of the concept
For Sartre, despair means calibrating action to what actually depends on us, without treating a hoped-for outcome as an advance guarantee.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 458 passages across 79 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Metaphysics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: désespoir, despair
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
- MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
- Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
- AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
- Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
- Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
- On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
- On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
- PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
- Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
- The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
- The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
- Letter to MenoeceusEpicurus · 1 passages
- Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre · 20 passages
- An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- The Theory of PsychoanalysisCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
- The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages