Being and Nothingness and metaphysical liberation: first task of the philosophy of freedom

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36517/Argumentos.31.5

Keywords:

Being and Nothingness. Liberation. Metaphysics. Sartre.

Abstract

The philosophy developed by Sartre is the philosophy of freedom. This is confirmed by his work, whether in literary or theatrical texts, in political interventions and even in travel reports; but it is in technical works that this concern is even more evident: Sartre sustains that his philosophy must fulfill three tasks, of which the first – and most important – is the metaphysical liberation of men and women. Being and Nothingness fulfills precisely this task; it is against Kant and distancing itself from Husserl and Heidegger that, first, freedom reveals itself as phenomenological truth: I am freedom; second, against all determinism, whether of externality, such as History (situation, class, etc.), or of interiority, such as Ego (transcendental Self, character, etc.), Sartre shows that freedom is also the foundation of History and the beginning of every individual adventure (life story, Psyche), both expressions of the same genesis: the singularity of freedom, self-sustaining process of being-in-the-world, is the only source of what man is and, consequently, of everything that can come to Being. Phenomenological ontology is the foundational work of the philosophy of freedom.

Author Biography

Luciano Donizetti da Silva, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

Possui graduação em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (1999), mestrado em História da Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (2002) e doutorado em História da Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (2006). Realizou estágio pós-doutoral na Universidade Lyon 3 - Jean Moulin (2016). É professor de Filosofia na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (MG), no Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Filosofia. Também faz parte do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da mesma instituição. Atualmente realiza estágio pós-doutoral na Universidade Federal de São Carlos (PPGFIL-UFSCAR, 2023).

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2024-01-15

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No. 31 (2024)

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Dossiê Sartre

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