Sartre and Hegel on Thymos, History and Freedom

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  • Jennifer Ang

Keywords:

Ontology, Thymos, History, Freedom, Hegel, Sartre

Abstract

Most Sartrean scholarship attributed Sartre's ontology of hostile intersubjectivity to Hegel's theory of recognition, and a Sartrean politics of violence to Hegel's master-slave dyad. This article sets out to examine Sartre and Hegel in three areas of their work: first, a reassessment of Sartre's ontology which was commonly thought to be founded on Hegel's thymos; second, a reconsideration of Fukuyama's conceptualisation of democracy as the end of Hegel's historical progress and Sartre's critique of democracy based on a humanist version of Marxism as philosophy of our time; and finally, a re-evaluation of the conceptualisation of freedom through Hegel's universal will and Sartre's principle of universal fraternity. 

Author Biography

Jennifer Ang

Jennifer Mei Sze ANG

Lecturer

SIM University

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Published

10-12-2014

How to Cite

Ang, J. (2014). Sartre and Hegel on Thymos, History and Freedom. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 10(2), 229–249. Retrieved from http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/388

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