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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sartre questions the idea that people arrive with a preassigned purpose. The selected comparison introduces existentialism without making Beauvoir’s account merely an extension of his.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 65
Freedom in a situation one did not choose
Beauvoir’s account of situated freedom leads to questions about oppression and support. How can one person open another’s possibilities without directing their life?