Wilfrid Desan, The Tragic Finale An Essay on the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Harvard University Press, United States 1954.
“This book represents an attempt at a systematic presentation and interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s ontology”. According to him, this book is not a historical introduction on how existentialism arises but he investigates the exposition of Sartre’s ontology. In order for him to achieve this, he shall use the different works of other philosopher by comparing and contrasting it. When he does it, he avoids a quotation from the very work of the philosophers. Not to repeat or extend the text rather interpret it from the very own words and use an accessible language to make it clear.
Here, it’s clearly that Wilfred Desan is not opposing …show more content…
p150. Prerefexive it is a reflection of a person that not totally deeper as he compare it to the authentic reflection. It seems like an ordinary living in this world in other words our daily experience that we face every day.
”Freedom has no limits” according to Sartre p162. In our lives, we were responsible of our freedom, our action, our choice, and in every decision making. Absolutely, being a responsible to our freedom it leads us to bad faith. Bad faith for Sartre is a self deception and it is also a combination of two human existences which is facticity and transcendence. Facticity is, our mindset that we cannot leave out from our experience to think negatively. Transcendence is the mindset of ours that we think positively to do such thing is possible.
“The conclusion is that, from whatever side one looks at it, there is no unlimited freedom and absolute freedom: either freedom limits itself (we are condemned to be free) from all things, even from freedom itself. Suicide is proof of the latter but the end of freedom.”
“This book represents an attempt at a systematic presentation and interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s ontology”. According to him, this book is not a historical introduction on how existentialism arises but he investigates the exposition of Sartre’s ontology. In order for him to achieve this, he shall use the different works of other philosopher by comparing and contrasting it. When he does it, he avoids a quotation from the very work of the philosophers. Not to repeat or extend the text rather interpret it from the very own words and use an accessible language to make it clear.
Here, it’s clearly that Wilfred Desan is not opposing …show more content…
p150. Prerefexive it is a reflection of a person that not totally deeper as he compare it to the authentic reflection. It seems like an ordinary living in this world in other words our daily experience that we face every day.
”Freedom has no limits” according to Sartre p162. In our lives, we were responsible of our freedom, our action, our choice, and in every decision making. Absolutely, being a responsible to our freedom it leads us to bad faith. Bad faith for Sartre is a self deception and it is also a combination of two human existences which is facticity and transcendence. Facticity is, our mindset that we cannot leave out from our experience to think negatively. Transcendence is the mindset of ours that we think positively to do such thing is possible.
“The conclusion is that, from whatever side one looks at it, there is no unlimited freedom and absolute freedom: either freedom limits itself (we are condemned to be free) from all things, even from freedom itself. Suicide is proof of the latter but the end of freedom.”