Sartre explicitly denied any pre-existing moral path for human choice.
Evidence
‘There is no traced-out path’: Sartre, interview with C. Grisoli, in The Last Chance: Roads of Freedom IV, 15 (originally published in Paru, 13 Dec. 1945). — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1136
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Sartre rejected mere tolerance as an inadequate basis for ethics — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 636; Sartre rejected both deontological and consequentialist ethics as too indeterminate — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 213; Sartre grounds all value in an unjustified, self-legitimizing freedom — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 185 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Sartre grounds all value in an unjustified, self-legitimizing freedom
#expands(0.88) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 185 - Sartre rejected both deontological and consequentialist ethics as too indeterminate
#expands(0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 213 - Sartre offers no defense of why existential honesty beats self-deception
#expands(0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 188