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Acknowledgements vii

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Chapter 2 Socratic Inspirations 5

i The Task of Philosophy 5

ii The Philosopher as Gadfly 9

iii Sartre's Socratic Sensibility: Reason vs. Lived Experience 12

iv 'Hated Conscience' of Their Time 14

Chapter 3 The Importance of Descartes 16

i Descartes' Revolutionary Spirit 16

ii Descartes' Strategy 17

iii Sartre's Debt to Descartes 21

Chapter 4 The Human Condition 28

i Our Freedom 28

ii Two Regions of Being 34

iii The Process of Negation: Disclosing and Revealing the World and the Self 39

iv The Influence of Husserl: Intentionality and Self-Awareness 44

v Awareness and Reflection 48

vi Our Fundamental Project 50

vii The Desire to be Necessary 54

viii Bad Faith and 'Good' Faith as Attitudes Towards Our Freedom 56

ix Bad Faith, Good Faith and Our Fundamental Project 59

Chapter 5 Relations With Others and Authentic Existence 62

i Relations with Others 62

ii Embracing Freedom as the Source of Values 66

iii 'Impure' and 'Pure' Reflection 70

iv Pure Reflection as a 'Foundation for an Ethics' 72

Chapter 6 Being for and Against Others 78

i Authenticity and the Morality 83

Chapter 7 The Weight of Immanuel Kant 90

i Kant's View over against Sartre's: Preliminary Observations 92

ii Duty, Demand and Obligation 94

iii Does Sartre Accept Kant's Universability Principle? 96

iv The First Mistaken Assumption 99

v The Second Mistaken Assumption 102

vi What Might Sartre Mean over against Kant? 104

Chapter 8 Sartre's Lasting Legacy 109

Notes 115

Further Reading 119

Bibliography 122

Index 125