Questions for Chapter 19: Sartre (pgs. 468-475)

Answer each question in short paragraph format. Demonstrate your familiarity with the text.

Remember: don’t simply cut and past from the textbook chapter. Explain using your own terminology and your own examples. Demonstrate you truly understand the key ideas and concepts discussed.

1. How did Sartre’s philosophy differ from “some philosophers of the eighteenth century”? Explain.

2. According to Sartre, “…we cannot explain human nature in the same way we describe a manufactured article.” Explain.

3. In the section titled: “Freedom and Responsibility,” the authors write: “What began in Sartre’s analysis of amoral subjectivism now turns out to be an ethics of strict accountability.” Explain this passage.