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| 22230 | Sartre gradually realised that freedom is curtailed by the weight of situation |
| Full Idea: Sartre evolved from a notion of absolute freedom to one that truly takes into account the weight of situation. | |||
| From: report of Jean-Paul Sartre (works [1950]) by Christine Daigle - Jean-Paul Sartre 2.3 | |||
| A reaction: This change seems to have come much later, in the 1960s. The main influence seems to have been Marxism, which claims that consciousness is created by society, rather than by free individuals. |