2005-04-18
Free choice or coincidence?
Roos already replied that my decision to start these reflexions was my own. It also was my own decision to reply on Jelle’s posting. But is it a coincidence that he posted this text exacly 25 years after the dead of Sartre? And why did I associate this text with Sartre? After posting my comment I read an article about Sarte in my newspaper and became aware of this remarkable coincident.
Sartre wrote: "Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." (from L'Être et le Néant / Being and Nothingness, 1943)
So our freedom implies that we are responsible for our own destiny. We must build it ourselves. The nasty thing is that we are not free to pick the ingredients, the things we encounter on our path.
More Sartre here.
Sartre wrote: "Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." (from L'Être et le Néant / Being and Nothingness, 1943)
So our freedom implies that we are responsible for our own destiny. We must build it ourselves. The nasty thing is that we are not free to pick the ingredients, the things we encounter on our path.
More Sartre here.
# posted by Sander @ 00:54 
