Sartre, in his many works, regards responsibility as the necessary consequence of inalienable human freedom. This fact also made him favours his notion of "either/or" between God'sexistence and human freedom strictly. For Sartre, "it is either Go dexists, or man is free and responsible." Jean-Paul Sartre took a very bold step to directly oppose the mainstream Western philosophy, which typically attempts to reconcile human responsibility with the existence of an all-powerful and all-knowing being. Moral responsibility links traditionally with God, as the ultimate guarantor of values and sanctions. Sartre repudiates the components of this tra ditional view and regards God as an impediment to human freedom and responsibility. The tension between human freedom and God is, therefore, deemed to be insoluble. Sartre thinks human responsibility makes sense only if there is no God; otherwise, divine foreknowledge and predestination will necessarily exclude alternative options and consequently, responsibility. The paper, therefore, did a critical analysis of the philosophical idea of freedom and responsibilit yin Jean-Paul Sartre. It analysed Sartre ’sidea that: when a man in existence defines what he is; man is both free to fashion his self and is accordingly, responsible for the outcome of his actions.
Akinlade-Daniel, G. O. (2019). Analysing Freedom and Responsibility in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions Journal, 1(2), 57–69. https://journal.taffds.org/articles/analysing-freedom-and-responsibility-in-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness
Akinlade-Daniel, Gabriel Oyeveho. “Analysing Freedom and Responsibility in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness.” Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 2019, pp. 57–69. https://journal.taffds.org/articles/analysing-freedom-and-responsibility-in-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness.
Akinlade-Daniel, Gabriel Oyeveho. 2019. “Analysing Freedom and Responsibility in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness.” Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions Journal 1 (2): 57–69. https://journal.taffds.org/articles/analysing-freedom-and-responsibility-in-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness.
Akinlade-Daniel, G.O. (2019) ‘Analysing Freedom and Responsibility in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness’, Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions Journal, 1(2), pp. 57–69. Available at: https://journal.taffds.org/articles/analysing-freedom-and-responsibility-in-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness (Accessed: 17 October 2026).
G. O. Akinlade-Daniel, “Analysing Freedom and Responsibility in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness,” Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 57–69, Jan. 2019.
Akinlade-Daniel GO. Analysing Freedom and Responsibility in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. TAFFD's J. 2019;1(2):57-69. Available from: https://journal.taffds.org/articles/analysing-freedom-and-responsibility-in-jean-paul-sartres-being-and-nothingness
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