PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism
11 Jan 2017
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We choose to ask who to ask, we choose not to be free, it is still the freedom we cannot evade and it fills us with anxiety. The different ways in which people fail to be free. Maximizing freedoms in an environment that is limited, when it clashes with the oppression of others. The two polarities subjectivity and objectivity creates tension (ambiguity) However i cannot completely escape my own mortality, so there is a limit to my freedom and this situation is ambiguous. We are simultaneously enacting on an objective condition (factical condition) Pascal - a thinking reed, an advantage of consciousness. We find ourselves in circumstances we didn"t create, but we are not reducible to these circumstances and to be so is to be nothing more than an object. Going in two directions at once, being unclear, philosophers prize clarity. For the idealist, the only thing that is essential is our minds- to think.
