PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man differs from a scientific object because he is nothing until he makes something of himself in choosing for himself he chooses for all men (christian trade union, monogamy) Man fashions both the signs and their interpretation the importance of hermeneutics for ethics (jesuit priest) Sartre"s reliance on kant ( one ought always to ask oneself what would happen if everyone did as one is doing, 292) and descartes ( the starting point for truth is one"s immediate sense of self , 302) Contrast human nature with the human condition to understand what sartre means by cowardice. Those who hide from total freedom, in a guise of solemnity or with deterministic excuses, i shall call cowards (308). The story of carlos flores and the subway accident. Thick concepts in ethics are concepts that are evaluatively loaded while at the same time non-evaluatively descriptive (courageous and cruel are thick concepts; good and bad are think concepts).
