PHIL 2010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jean-Paul Sartre

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2010H
• Professor: Preston

Document Summary

This is a matter of responsibility for something you create by the choices you make and carry out; not responsibility to someone or some institution for carrying out certain tasks or following certain rules. Sartre says that we are responsible not just for our own human nature, but for the nature of all humanity. This does not mean that we can impose our choice of human nature on others--- they have free will, too--- but only that in choosing as we do we proclaim our values. We say to everyone, this is how human beings should be. This feature is concerned with responsibility for choices, not consequences. If you try to shift the responsibility off yourself and onto someone else, you"re in bad faith. The complete free will of others (and your future self) to decide spontaneously at any point to either keep or abandon commitments. This feature is concerned with our relations with others.