From Ontology to Ethics: Conversion in the Work of Jean-Paul Sartre

• Grant number: 24/10078-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2024
• End date: April 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Fundamentals and Assessments in Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Danilo Saretta Verissimo
• Grantee: João Carlos Soares dos Santos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this project is to investigate the existence of ethics in Jean-Paul Sartre's work, especially in his phenomenological ontology. Ethics represents both a concern and an imposition on Sartre's existential philosophy. Since its principles of priority of existence and inescapable freedom, questions arise about human action, its determinations and its authenticity. Thus, we discuss the ethical elements present in phenomenological psychology, such as the conceptions of nausea and anguish as disclosures of the meaning of the world, and the evasion represented by the constant appeal to the imaginary. In phenomenological ontology, we discuss anguish as the dissolution of values and the disclosure of the subject as an ethical agent, as well as exposing the problem of bad faith related to alterity and alienation. Finally, we investigate the notion of conversion as a passage from inauthenticity to authenticity.