Jean-Paul Sartre (1905- 1980), one of the most important French philosophers in the 20th century, the main representative of French atheism existentialism and one of the most active advocates of western socialism, refused to accept any prizes all his life, including 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Beauvoir 1908 was born in Paris. 1929 received a degree in philosophy from the University of Paris and passed the French philosophy teacher qualification examination. 1945 co-founded Modern magazine with Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Meg-Ponty, devoted to promoting existentialism. The Second Sex was published in 1949, which caused great repercussions in the ideological circle and became a feminist classic.

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Sartre's later years: 1974 Sartre's left eye has actually been completely unusable (the right eye was blind in childhood), and high blood pressure forced him to reduce his daily walking to less than half a mile. Due to the loss of writing ability, he said, "I have lost my reason for existence." In the last few months of his life, he showed a rare peace in his life and revised his thoughts.

Surprisingly, he joined many conservatives in condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and supporting the United States to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games. 1on April 5, 980, Sartre died in Paris at the age of 74, and tens of thousands of people went to pay their respects.

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