{"id":223,"date":"2015-08-11T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/?p=223"},"modified":"2015-08-11T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T08:37:12","slug":"freedom-and-the-origins-of-reasons-draft-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/freedom-and-the-origins-of-reasons-draft-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom and the Origins of Reasons &#8211; draft now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2015\/08\/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2015\/08\/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty_small.jpg\" alt=\"image of Maurice Melreau-Ponty\" width=\"200\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>A full draft of chapter 3 is now available to download.<\/p>\n<p>It argues that Merleau-Ponty&#8217;s critique of Sartre&#8217;s theory of freedom fails. Merleau-Ponty has succeeded in showing that one of Sartre&#8217;s claims about freedom is untenable, but has not shown that this requires the rejection of the entire theory rather than just of that one claim.<\/p>\n<p>In arguing for this, the chapter clarifies Sartre&#8217;s theory of freedom in <em>Being and Nothingness<\/em> and argues that Beauvoir&#8217;s defence of Sartre&#8217;s theory a decade later indicates that Sartre&#8217;s theory had developed over that time.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to respond, please post your thoughts in the Comments thread below.<\/p>\n<p>Draft chapters are available from <a title=\"Book\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/?page_id=2\">the Book page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A full draft of chapter 3 is now available to download. It argues that Merleau-Ponty's critique of Sartre's theory of freedom fails. Merleau-Ponty has succeeded in showing that one of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapters"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}