Sartre’s ideal person acts purposefully with confidence in meaning

Evidence

For Sartre, the awakened individual is neither Roquentin, fixating on objects in cafés and parks, nor Sisyphus, rolling a stone up the mountainside with the bogus cheerfulness of Tom Sawyer whitewashing a fence. It is a person who is engaged in doing something purposeful, in the full confidence that it means something. It is the person who is truly free. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 492

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens what Sartre means by authentic freedom versus Camus’s absurd cheer.
• XREF: connects to: Freire sought sufficient certainty to act without losing openness to challenge — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 899