Lecture 20

Question 1

what is anguish

Answer 1

what follows after realizing you have complete freedom for who you are

Question 2

what is a priori

Answer 2

brute fact

Question 3

what is abandonment

Answer 3

you are alone in the universe, feel abandoned, afraid

there is a possibility that no one has your back

Question 4

What does Russell say about not having god exists

Answer 4

liberating

Question 5

what is despair

Answer 5

The awareness that one cannot control the actions of others and that one must act without hope. Sartre believed that despair is a stoic indifference to how things turn out.

Question 6

what’s Sartre’s problem with saying ‘oh people wouldn’t do that’

Answer 6

people are free, anything can happen.

“I dont know where the Russian revolution might lead”

Question 7

marxist causality

Question 8

objection on free will based on science (Baron d’Holbach)

Answer 8

newtons law suggesting that all objects are in a state of rest/motion unless impressed upon, literal meaning of this means free will doesn’t exist

Question 9

counter to d’holbach

Answer 9

newtons law is about inanimate objects, not necessarily living people

scientific data must be backed by empirical data, dholbach doesn’t have that

Question 10

Sartre on passing judgement to a ‘bad’ action

Answer 10

if someone steals a phone and says they had to do it, Sartre will say they are deluding themselves by saying that they ‘had’ to do it and thats bad faith (implicated in factual error, but not that the action itself is objectively wrong)

however subjective morality still exists, i.e they are wrong according to my beliefs