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Nauseated, Anguished And Ashamed: Where Did Sartre Go Wrong?, Douglas Contri
Nauseated, Anguished And Ashamed: Where Did Sartre Go Wrong?, Douglas Contri
West Chester University Master’s Theses
This thesis examines Jean-Paul Sartre’s ontology and argues that his conception of consciousness as individuated nothingness is responsible for the discontented human condition he describes. It further argues that this ontology is at variance with our experience, and as such the human condition is not inevitably unhappy. Instead, a phenomenological description of consciousness as transpersonal and full is advanced. A transpersonal ontology of consciousness asserts that consciousnesses are not entirely individuated from one another, but constitutively constructed by “other” consciousnesses, which renders them full. Consciousness as transpersonal leads to a reconceptualization of the subject-other relationship as an I-as-other-other- …