ABSTRACT
Death is a temporal event, a complex event in the void. That void is the simplest of simple beings, and the medium and opportunity for all other varieties of being to have and to hold their true haecceitas. Creativity’s import seems again defence rather than growth; the events compenetrated as “self-transcendence” are growth started and sustained by successive acts of self-preservation. J. P. Sartre’s personal history presents a dramatic confirmation of Jaspers’ word regarding the springs of Existential philosophies. Sartre provides an answer, in that he chose to forego the luxury of metaphysical evil and bonded himself to the program of the no less metaphysical Communist good, including its atheist charges against the inhumanity of the rest of the world’s God. The sickness of soul projected images of man wherein the skills of intellect and the creativity of intelligence figured as crippling weaknesses, not creative strengths. The sickness keeps averting the mind from the human past as from intolerable evil.
