PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jean-Paul Sartre
17 Jul 2016
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The sub person and the serious person do no acknowledge their original freedom (their subjectivity as a lack of being ) Sub-person does not have a project and is indifferent to the questions of ethics altogether. Serious person is often concerned to do what is right, but thinks that this involves obedience to an objectively given cause. B describes the contradictory, absurd, and outrageous behaviour of the serious person. The contradiction : the serious man is dangerous lives of the natives (49) The serious person whose project has failed negates all value; for them, there is no value in the world, and they themselves is nothing. Nihilism and camus" concept of absurdity: b agrees with c that there is no given meaning we are abandoned, without. God or a metaphysical framework: but for b, life is not absurd, it is for each of us to create the meaning of our lives through our free projects.
