Sartre’s absolute consciousness is bounded by other consciousnesses without being determined

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For Sartre, consciousness as absolute is not determined by another selfconsciousness. Th is does not mean, however, that this self-consciousness has infi nite freedom. Th e absolute consciousness still has certain boundaries, since it may be limited by another self-consciousness. In this way Sartre hopes to refute the solipsistic attitude while at the same time distancing his thought from that of Hegel. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 260

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• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s free transparent consciousness leads him to reject the unconscious and all psychological determinism — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 79; Sartre rejects the Cartesian split of free will from determined passions — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1078