Sartre: A Letter on His Perspective
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I've been reviewing your philosophy, and I have some serious questions concerning your ideas about free will. First, though, let me say that I agree with your idea that freedom is ontological: that we are free because we are not really a self (or an it-self, as it were) but rather a presence-to-self (or the transcendence of the self). The implication of your argument is clearly that we are somehow "other" from ourselvesùthat no matter what we are or what others ascribe to us, we are a nihilistic opposite of it simultaneously. Or, in other words "we are 'in the manner of not being it'" (Flynn). This idea, in my mind, descends from Pascal's famous aphorism: "I think, therefore I am" (Hajek). The presence to self that you refer to is really an echo of Pascal's thinking man, that idea that because we have a concept of what we are not, or what is beyond
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