SARTRE EN “DE MYTHE VAN DE SCHEPPING”
1987; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 48; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2143/bij.48.2.2016197
ISSN1783-1377
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Summary In 1982 Sartre's Cahiers pour une morale were published, a manuscript from about 1947, which forms an immediate sequel to Being and Nothingness (1943). Large fragments of this unfinished and rather chaotic work deal with what Sartre calls the “myth of creation”. These “myth” has nothing to do with the book Genesis or with other ancient stories about the beginning of the world and the creation of man(kind). The term refers to the idea of a creating God as such. The idea of a God-Creator is according to Sartre nothing more than an invention and a projection of man, who suffers from bad faith, i.e. who has chosen for a denial of his own freedom and creativity. On the metaphysical level Sartre discusses mainly the opinion of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz—the medieval tradition seems unknown to him -, but the whole style of reasoning reminds one of the leftwing hegelianism, particularly of Feuerbach. Sartre preaches the necessity of a “conversion” to the “natural attitude” that leads so easely to the bad faith, especially the bad faith of any form of religious belief and practice, to the “pure” and “non-accessory” reflection that recognizes freedom as the fundament and the ends of all human reality. In these and other matters Sartre turns out to be a radical voluntarist, for whom the existence of man and the being of the world as the two only forms of Being are as contingent as this Being itself. Though Sartre neverwhere explicitly refers to Nietzsche, he belongs to the thinkers for whom God is dead and for whom living in a totally secularized world is the only sense and joy of life The Cahiers…confirm the interpretation of L'être et le néant as an existential psychoanalysis of the world of bad faith and they confirm the impression of Sartres impossibility to develop a positiv moral theory.
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