Sobre libertad y pasión en Jean Paul Sartre

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand the relationship between the concepts of freedom and passion in the existentialist philosophy of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. This relationship is problematic because although the philosophical tradition tended to conceive the human person as an essentially free being, since at least the nineteenth century some positions that questioned that hegemonic conception emerged with great force, defending determinisms of the most diverse types (social, cultural, economic, biological, among others). The text explains why Sartre denies the biological explanation of the passionate phenomenon and the introduction of the unconscious made by Freudian psychoanalysis. In short, it delves into why existentialism does not believe in the power of passion and, therefore, defends the radical freedom of the human person.