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The Actuality of Sartre's Free Will Conception

Labyrinth

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Title The Actuality of Sartre's Free Will Conception
 
Creator Kampits, Peter
 
Subject Philosophy
Jean-Paul Sartre, freedom, will, determinism, brain research, otherness, ontology, ethics
 
Description The main Sartrean concepts and theses of freedom of will and unlimited responsibility, which seemed for many already outdated, are gaining actually interest in respect to the recent results in brain research. The main objective of the paper is to reevaluate Sartre's free will conception trying to answer the question: How would Sartre who, in the time of his existentialist phase during which his radical theory of freedom received its most pointed articulation, was familiar with psychological theories of determinism, have responded to statements of actually leading brain researchers such as "we are determined," "brain research liberates from illusions" or "I am my brain"? 
 
Publisher Axia Academic Publishers
 
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Date 2015-12-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Philosophic-Historical Approach
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/20
10.25180/lj.v17i2.20
 
Source Labyrinth; Vol 17, No 2 (2015): History and Choice: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-2015); 39-48
1561-8927
2410-4817
10.25180/lj.v17i2
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/20/25
 
Coverage French Philosophy
Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of the 20. and 21. Century
Continental Philosophy, Existentialism
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Peter Kampits
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0