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I have been critical of Sartre; but I am sympathetic to many of his ideas. He rejects an objectivist view of the self and self-knowledge and emphasizes how much of what makes a person the person he is lacks determination in the sense that it is not something that is fixed independently of his fundamental choices. These are open to revision and so any person is open to change: such change is always within the realm of possibility for him. This for Sartre is the fundamental freedom which defines human existence.
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© 1993 İlham Dilman
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Dilman, İ. (1993). Self, Self-Knowledge and Self-Change: A Non-Objectivist View and its Defence. In: Existentialist Critiques of Cartesianism. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13142-6_9
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