Reciprocity and conversion in Jean-Paul Sartre's first ethics

Shvaćajući rigidnost ocrtanih ljudskih odnosa i ljudskog stanja u svom eseju Bitak i ništa, Jean-Paul Sartre je najavio prikazati egzistencijalistički model etike u nekom budućem djelu. Taj esej je posthumno objavljen kao Notebooks for an Ethics, a ono predstavlja Sartreov prvi pokušaj da etici posveti posebno djelo. Upravo taj prijelaz iz poimanja ljudskih odnosa kao nužno konfliktnih u one koje se kroz konverziju svijesti obogaćuju u odnose usmjerene prema zajedničkoj suradnji, predstavlja središnji problem ovog rada. Uloga svijesti kao slobode, tj. onog za-sebe, zadržava centralnu važnost analize egzistenta kao bitak-u-svijetu u situaciji. Poznata još kao i Sartreova faza 'prve etike', djelo Notebooks for an Ethics je ujedno samokritika i proširenje nekih ranijih ideja o prepoznavanju, uvažavanju i razumijevanju slobode Drugog.Because of the rigidity of the way the human condition and human relations were outlined in his essay Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre made an announcement that he will show an existentialist model of ethics in a future work. The posthumously published essay, Notebooks for an Ethics, represents Sartre’s first attempt to dedicate a special piece to ethics. The transition from looking at human relations as those which necessarily end in conflict to those which are, through conversion, enriched and directed towards cooperation, represents the central question of this thesis. The role of consciousness as freedom, i.e. the for-itself, retains its key importance in the analysis of the existent as being-in-the-world in a situation. Also known as Sartre’s ‘First Ethics’, Notebooks for an Ethics is simultaneously a self-criticism and expands on his earlier ideas on recognising, acknowledging and comprehending the Other’s freedom