PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism
29 Mar 2016
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Existentialism and human emotion jean-paul sartre (textbook notes) Sartre believes that man is responsible for his own choices. He does not believe in the power of passion and feelings, unlike emotivism. Boy vs mother argument: mother was alone; boy knew she lived for him. On one hand there is sympathy, the other hand is broader ethics. Sartre believes that no ethics can tell you the right thing to do or the right way to act. Existentialism and human emotion jean-paul sartre (lecture notes) Feelings are so unreliable because they are always capable of changing. Boy vs mother argument: he made a moral decision to be responsible. A moral decision is then defined as a free decision, every decision that you make you are then responsible for. The only acts you can define moral are the actions you believe are free. There should be no external influences to help you make this decision.
