Beauvoir and Sartre share a tradition separating being from rationality

Evidence

By locking up being in its fullness, Beauvoir, like Sartre, subscribes to a strain of philosophy that a Neoplatonist reading of the history of Western philosophy would try to suppress, one that separates being and rationality. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 443

Categorization

• XREF: Places Beauvoir-Sartre within the lineage that the Neoplatonist reading of philosophy tries to suppress — relevant to Continental historiography debates. — connects to: Sartre and Beauvoir rejected Camus’s cosmic absurdity, insisting life has real meaning. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 489