This chapter aims at exploring the issues concerning freedom, facticity, and transcendence in Sartre's philosophy. I shall be largely concentrating on two aspects of Sartrean notion of Being. I shall be largely analyse how far the concept... more
This chapter aims at exploring the issues concerning freedom, facticity, and transcendence in Sartre's philosophy. I shall be largely concentrating on two aspects of Sartrean notion of Being. I shall be largely analyse how far the concept "absolute freedom" is consistent with the concept "facticity?" Is it the case that human beings are so free that they are the creators of all sorts of situations to which they are also held responsible?
Descartes’ idea that self is the composite of two distinct substances, the mind/soul, which is essentially me and the other body, which is mine but not me, is rejected by phenomenologists. Unlike Descartes, his heirs reject the idea... more
Descartes’ idea that self is the composite of two distinct substances, the mind/soul, which is essentially me and the other body, which is mine but not me, is rejected by phenomenologists. Unlike Descartes, his heirs reject the idea that mind and body are distantly connected in a way that never be clearly focused. If we deliberately examine the claim that Cartesian legatees developed their thought under the source, France, we will come to explore the ways by which these thinkers developed very different attitude regarding self. This article sketches out the picture that Descartes legacy lives in the work of Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir.
