Jean-Paul Sartre on freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) approaches freedom within existentialism. Existence precedes essence; bad faith evades responsibility by treating oneself as a fixed object. Systematically, the teaching links freedom, consciousness, responsibility into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets freedom most directly—useful for searches such as “jean-paul sartre quotes on freedom.”
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