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Chapter 7 (on Being and Nothingness Part IV) turns to consider Sartre’s technical and philosophical concept of freedom. Reading his engagement with Leibniz here alongside his discussion of Descartes in La Liberté cartesienne (1946), the chapter argues that Sartre’s phenomenology of freedom in Being and Nothingness can be read as anti-theodicy. Sartre rejects ‘freedom’ as a ‘sufficient reason’ for the world’s ills: it is the source of too many of them. Moreover, the resulting Sartrean pessimism is more extreme than that of his Jansenist predecessors. The for-itself is free to the extent that it refuses any possibility of grace.
Title: Freedom
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Chapter 7 (on Being and Nothingness Part IV) turns to consider Sartre’s technical and philosophical concept of freedom.
Reading his engagement with Leibniz here alongside his discussion of Descartes in La Liberté cartesienne (1946), the chapter argues that Sartre’s phenomenology of freedom in Being and Nothingness can be read as anti-theodicy.
Sartre rejects ‘freedom’ as a ‘sufficient reason’ for the world’s ills: it is the source of too many of them.
Moreover, the resulting Sartrean pessimism is more extreme than that of his Jansenist predecessors.
The for-itself is free to the extent that it refuses any possibility of grace.
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