Sartre and bad faith as the foundation of law

Authors

  • João Flávio Almeida

Keywords:

Sartre. Law. Freedom. Conscience. Bad-faith.

Abstract

Kant proposed, from his rationalism, understanding of freedom as a fundamental and absolute right of humanity, the right that underlies and enables others. However, based on the concepts of Sartre (denial, freedom and distress), we see that consciousness is separated by a nothingness of the world, so ontologically free. To analyze the relationship of consciousness to the world, Sartre observes the man’s relationship with the past, the future, the essence and values, and as we shall see, this radical freedom appears as an extension of their own conscience, not an external attribute you can win or secure as a right. Consequently, if their freedom is understood as externality itself can be understood as a movement of anguish and bad faith.

Published

2015-07-01

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Section

Artigos