Sartre's Thoughts On Bodies

Sartre talks mostly about human bodies, but he does mention other types of bodies. He says that a body without a conscience cannot be anything else without the help of an other object. In example, a rock cannot be anything else than a rock, but if a human comes along, that human can use it as a weapon.

Sartre agrees with Plato, and Aristotle when he says that the body helps individualize the conscience, but does not conform it to anything. He also says that the conscience is separate of the body, and can "detach itself," upon the death of the body.