Open AccessJean-Paul Sartre and Louis Lavelle – Two Existential Conceptions of Humanism and their Ethical Consequences
Author(s) -
Władysław Zuziak
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
fides et ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2082-7067
DOI - 10.34766/fetr.v48i4.977
Subject(s) - existentialism , humanism , epistemology , philosophy , foundation (evidence) , humanistic psychology , psychoanalysis , psychology , theology , law , political science
On the basis of the thesis “existence precedes the essence”, L. Lavelle and J.-P. Sartre developed two different versions of existentialism which were the foundation for creating different models of humanism based on the phenomenological approach. I attempt to show that Sartre's atheistic existentialism, which relies on the abstract conception of freedom and an erroneous project of man, is a theory which is less plausible than the existentialism of Lavelle, based on the assumption of man's participation in being. I also discuss the ethical consequences for individual and social development that result from the assumptions of both conceptions.