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<font size="4">Sartrian
Freedom</font></b></p>
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poise of the ego, the consciousness of the psycho-vital Purusha as
envisaged and experienced by Sartre leads to many other not less
catastrophic conclusions. Here is something more on Freedom which
seems to be almost the corner-stone of his system: </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=3>&quot;Freedom is not <I>a </I>being: it is <I>the </I>being
of man, that is to say, his not-being&quot;. A very cryptic mantra.
Let us try to unveil the Shekinah. &quot;Being&quot; means &quot;be-ing&quot;
<I>i.e. </I>existing, something persisting, continuing in the same
condition, something fixed, a status. Freedom is not a <I>thing </I>of
that kind, it is movement: even so, it is not a continuous movement.
According to Bergson, the true, the ultimate reality is a continuity
of urge <I>(<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&eacute;</FONT>lan vital);
</I>according to Sartre, however, in line with the trend of modern
scientific knowledge, the reality is an assemblage of discrete units
of energy, packets or quanta. So freedom is an urge, a spurt
<I>(jaillissement): </I>it acts in a disconnected fashion and it is
absolute and unconditional. It is veritably the wind that bloweth
where it listeth. It has no purpose, no direction, no relation: for
all those attributes or definitions would annul its absoluteness. It
does not stop or halt or dwell upon, it bursts forth and passes. It
does not exist, that is stay: therefore it is non-being. Man's being
then consist of a conglomeration <I>(ensemble) </I>of such freedoms.
And that is the whole reality of</FONT></P>
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</I>man, his very essence. We have said that a heavy sense of
responsibility hangs upon the .free Purusha: but it appears the
Sartrian Purusha is a divided personality. In spite of the sense of
responsibility (or because of it?) he acts irresponsibly; for, acting
otherwise would not be freedom. So then this essence, the
self-consciousness, self-existence, presence in oneself is not a
status, a fixed standing entity: it is not a point, even if geometrical; </FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>it is, Sartre describes, the jet from one point to another, for, real
point there is none: so it is the emptiness behind all concrete
realities that is the true reality, <I>asat brahman, <FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">ś</FONT>unyam
– to </I>Sartre that is freedom, freedom absolute and ultimate.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Practically this conception of freedom brings into high
relief, makes almost all in all, only one aspect, one character or
attribute of freedom: the abolition of all ties and obligations and
relations beyond oneself involving a hollow self-sufficiency.
Naturally such an outlook requires against it a complementary one,
even if it is not to correct and complete, at least to support and
implement it. Sartre too cannot ignore the fact that the free being
is not an isolated phenomenon in the world; it exists along with and
in the company of others of the same nature and quality. Indeed human
society is that in essence, an <I>association of freedoms, </I>although
these movements of freedom are camouflaged in appearance and are not
recognised by the free persons themselves. The interaction between
the free persons, the reflection of oneself in others and the mutual
dependence of egos is a constant theme in the novels and plays of
Sartre.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>'Freedom cannot be real freedom unless it is licence :
yet society means a curtailment or inhibition or modification of this
absolute liberty. This, conflict has never been resolved in Sartre
and is fundamental to his ideology, 'the source of his tragic
nihilism. That is because the consciousness here lives horizontally,
level with the normal, what we described as psycho-vital
consciousness. The way out lies in transcendence, in a vertical
uplifting of the consciousness and the being.</FONT><BR>
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