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This 4 page paper contemplates these topics through the eyes of Jean Paul Sartre. Kant as well as St. Augustine's ideas are also discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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England or remain in France with his mother to whom he is devoted. People grapple with such decisions daily. Should they choose A or B? In this case, a
student is choosing between love of country and love of family. Sartre told the student that he is free to choose or invent. Here, the theorist means this in the
purest sense. One can take his words at face value because Sartre saw determinism as irrelevant and that people are free to choose their own fate. He strongly believed this.
Hence, the judgment would be up to the son and there is no rhyme or reason, and no additional attributes with which he could endow the solution. No one can
see the future because man has free will. Sartre does not give much help to this student. He adds that Kantian ethics cannot help the student in his decision either.
In respect to Kantian ethics, and what appears in Metaphysics of Morals, it really is no help. Kants moral philosophy is entrenched in an implicit idea that virtue is better
than the self-serving fulfillment of happiness. In other words, living a life of virtue has its own implicit rewards some might equate with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through
immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give a hungry child his or her ice-cream cone, or does one indulge in the dessert because after
all, they paid the Good Humor man for it. Although the "starving children in China" will not really benefit from a child cleaning his plate, the reality is that people
can be more generous in a general sense. If someone has something, whether it is an ice-cream cone or money or clothing, there could indeed be more pleasure in giving
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