PHIL 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nanny, Vincent Van Gogh, Jean-Paul Sartre

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1033
• Professor: David Cunning

Document Summary

We decide what we are almost completely. If we don"t succeed, just keep trying; it"s all on us; cant make excuses . Facticity is not most important thing about us . it is what is up to our free control. Moderate sartre a retreat from some of the more extreme positions. It"s true that we are always free to choose, but that does not mean that it is up to us how the outside world responds to us. We aren"t in control of what we desire or what we value, but we are free to try to pursue what we already desire and value. Our freedom depends on the freedom of others and vice versa (306). If we decide that a large part of what we are is out of our control, we might give up too easily and conclude that our essence is out of our hands. Our freedom could depend on the freedom of others.