There is No Good Answer: The Role of Responsibility in Sartre's Ethical Theory

Sartre Studies International 21 (2):97-107 (2015)
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This paper contends that under a Sartrean framework, any moral judgment we make regarding our own action is never final; the meaning and moral value of our past actions always remains reinterpretable in light of what unfolds in the future. Our interactions with other people reveal that we are responsible for far more than we had initially supposed ourselves to be choosing when we began our project , such that it is in fact impossible to ever finish taking responsibility completely.

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Michael Butler
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks

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Being and nothingness.Jean-Paul Sartre - 1956 - Avenel, N.J.: Random House.

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