Jennifer Coreas
Professor Sabrina Jamil
PHI2010-2233-6677
5 March 2023
Journal #6
3.
What is your reaction to Sartre's perspective on freedom? Do you find his view
liberating and inspiring, or do you think it is disheartening and forlorn?
I agree with Sartre’s perspective on freedom. It is both liberating and inspiring because
humans should have the right to freely create their own lives. We should be free to choose how
we live our life from the day we realize that we can control how it goes. Unfortunately, that is
not always the case because there are cultures and religions that have already pre-determined the
fate of those that have no say or control over it and I can understand why there are those who
reject this. We live in a world where cultures have followed a set of rules that have been
implemented for a very long time and is used for every generation. For example, arranged
marriages are pre-determined by the families or guardians instead of the couple themselves. This
is where Sartre’s perspective is impossible to apply because we know in this case nothing can be
done. A person would be defying their family if they choose not to go through with this marriage.
“Our destiny is mapped out beforehand through the workings of a creator God or a universal
human nature or some unalterable social structure” (Vaughn, p. 271).
