Deep subject.
I'm going to have to dig through my basement to find that one, because it certainly bears re-reading in light of some topics here lately.

Pull up a seat, grab a thread and dig in!

Dudette,

All I can say is I read him a great many years ago. I concluded he was either an extremly intelligent man or a fraud hiding in his own obscurity. If you read other philosophers prose, like Schopenhauer who is very clear and grounded, you might conclude there is a less than honest modivation here with Sartres.

Perhaps you should look at some of his precursors, like Kierkegaard. Then contrast existence precedes essence with essence precedes existence and show how one or the other can lead to atheism or theism respectively.

I would like to hear how the research is going.

Well, to be honest... its not. My philosophy teacher is a physics teacher and this is his first year teaching philosophy, hes a great person but he even said he didnt want to teach philosophy, the college is havin money problems and has had to cut staff. Anyway... back to my essay!
I think ill start with an introduction of a basic outline of sartres existentialist approach which would explain why he is atheist. Then try to criticise him from a religious approach. I found some interesting points on catholic education resourse website...
'the Catholic Church claims that God only creates the raw material and we make the final form of ourselves through our freewill however sartre would argue this disproves God, if there were a God, man would be reduced to a mere artifact of god, and thus we would not be free. Sartre constantly argues that human dignity and freedom require atheism, however he does seem to confuse freedom with independence and the only god he can concieve is the one who would take away freedom rather than creating or maintaining it he see freedom as a kind of rebellion. He claims freedom is "the freedom to say no".'
So I have a few ideas just not sure if Im on the right lines and how to piece it together. It has to be 8+ sides of A4 so dont feel i hav enough and i want to be careful i dont rant on for 8 pages if its wrong!
Im at a disadvantage because i hav not studied it that long and i have only studied particular philosophers and particular ideas of theirs.
But all replies are much appreciated! thanks

So someone who doesn't even have a passion for philosophy is actually teaching philosophy!?

Run.

He has a interest in it, but he doesnt hav an interest in how we succeed in it. He has more of an interest in his physics class. To be fair he has tried, I just feel he hasnt prompted us (my class) where to take our research, in his words 'type sartre and atheism into google and see where it takes you'. Well that took me to pages and pages of university lectures which none of the class could grasp. So just wondering what advice people can give.

I like this idea. Not only would it provide some "filler" for your 8 page mini-novel, but it would provide some background of where he may have gotten some of his ideas and the contempory thoughts of his lifetime. Treat it is as an extended introduction, then transition into the meat of the paper.

Regardless of what you choose to do with this, please stay positive. You don't "don't know anything", you know something and can simply lookup the rest. You don't "have no idea where to begin", you have put forth a very good idea and bravely asked for assistance in developing it. You don't "have 8 pages that need to be filled", you have only 8 pages to get your ideas across. You can do this, and everyone here is ready and willing to help.

Thank you very much, that certainly does but it perspective for me!

Whats up dudette

I'm also struggling with this particular issue for my A2 Philosophy paper.

Any further help would be appreciated!