PHI 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jean-Paul Sartre, Kantian Ethics, Universalizability
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Man possesses a human nature, that human nature which is the conception of human being, is found in every man, which means that each man is a particular example ofa universal conceptions, the conception of man. In kant, this universality goes so far that the wild man of the woods, man in the state of nature and the bourgeois are all contained in the same definition and have the same fundamental qualities. There is no universal human nature from which we take our essence. Rather, we create human nature through the exercise of our radical freedom. In other words, some may think that sartre. Account of human nature is inconsistent with ethics. Sartres response anguish= anxiety concerning the gravity of one"s responsibility. Ones coices are supremely important becuase they determine what human nature will be. Human nature is what we will it to be.
