Ebook: Freedom As a Value: a Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sarte

Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Freedom; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Sartre's Arguments for Freedom; 1.2.1 The First Argument: Consciousness is Not What it Is; 1.2.1.1 The rejection of the phenomenal reduction; 1.2.1.2 The transcendence of the ego; 1.2.1.3 Acts, Roles, Psychic States and Emotions; 1.2.2 The Second Argument: Consciousness Is What it is Not; 1.2.2.1 Imagination; 1.2.2.2 Doubt; 1.2.2.3 Destruction; 1.2.2.4 Interrogation; 1.2.2.5 Perception; 1.2.2.6 The experience of absence; 1.3 The Nature of Freedom; 1.3.1 The Omnipotence Objection; 1.3.1.1 Limitations to freedom.;This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartre's ethical theory establishes its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and wins many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.