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| Authenticity is one of the most controversial topics that has captured the attention of some influential contemporary thinkers. In this age of the 'death of God', the attention is focused on man. [More...] |
| Jean-Paul Sartre initially discussed the notion of authenticity through the phenomenologico-ontological treatment of the concept of bad faith. In his Being and Nothingness, he devoted a chapter dealing with the latter concept. [More...] |
| Sartre presents a threefold pattern of bad faith in his monumental work Being and Nothingness.[More...] |
| After establishing the ontological inevitability of the possibility of bad faith, the problem that challenges us is whether or not there is a way of achieving authenticity. [More...] |
| The early Sartrean tenet of the ontological impossibility of individual authenticity made Sartre rethink on the possibility of authenticity. [More...] |
| There is hardly any original thought in the strictest sense of the word. Any new thought is most often either a development of a previous thought or a reaction to one. [More...] |
| An initial reading of early Sartrean works will reveal the nonexistence of a possibility of collective authenticity. [More...] |
| Collective authenticity is a project which must be realized at the social level. Sartre holds that this can only be achieved through proper social reorganization. [More...] |
| Collective authenticity in The Problem of Method takes two forms. First, collective authenticity may be understood as the class struggle towards the establishment of a society based on brotherhood and freedom. [More...] |
| The possibility of collective authenticity lies in what Sartre calls the privileged place of man in the universe. In most instances, society tends to curtail the freedom of the individual. [More...] |
| The Sartrean discussion of the struggle towards collective authenticity in The Problem of Method is incarnated in the Marxist class struggle. [More...] |
| The foregoing analysis shall focus on the question of whether or not Sartre was successful in his theoretical marriage of Existentialism and Marxism. [More...] |
| The tragedy of human existence manifests itself in the perpetual vacillation of man leading towards a life devoid of commitment. [More...] |