ISSN: 2641-9130
Authors: Araujo Souza CK*
Daily choices involve daily and intrinsically freedom, one of the central themes in Jean-aul Sartre’s existentialist philosophy. Some scholars have this philosopher together with Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freünd as the “masters of suspicion”, because they revolutionized the subject’s secular tradition in what corresponds to an “inner and outer self”. In order to carry out this analysis, we base ourselves on the studies of Leopoldo e Silva on the illusory gratuity that the subject has when choosing a certain choice, that is, the apparent existence at no cost. In view of this, three central questions will be exposed to base the argument that Sartre defends regarding the impossibility of the intentionality of the “being1 ” choosing to be2 something in the same way that it can possess3 some object. The first question concerns the meaning of existence. The second question demonstrates the importance of history for and in the individual. In the third and last one, the project is explained, the individual’s intention along the way in history. It is from this intention that the freedom arises for the subject to choose something for himself or, even not to choose, as he is free even to be what he had not designed at the beginning of this journey. In view of that, Sartre tries to demonstrate that hope is, little by little, limited in the project that the subject puts on himself to be something, given its radical finitude and its exorbitant price for existence.
Keywords: Existentialism; Freedom; Philosophy; Illusion
