Posted by Gwen
on January 12, 2009, 7:23 pm, in reply to "despair"
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What I got from Sartre's discussion on despair was that man should only be confined to "reckoning with" what is dependent on our will, and the realm of possibilities that are open with our certain actions - basically we should only be concerned with what is made possible with our actions.
Sarte says, "The moment the possibilities I am considering are not rigorously involved by my action, I ought to disengage myself from them, because no God, no scheme, can adapt the world and its possibilities to my will."
The idea of despair relates to this because there is a sense of hopelessness when the individual realizes that there is not an infinite world of possibilities - only the possibilities made available by his actions.
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