Work · Jean-Paul Sartre
Notebooks for an Ethics
These notebooks explore conversion, generosity, violence and recognition while seeking an ethics after Being and Nothingness.
Understanding the text
Notes from 1947–1948 published posthumously, not a definitive completed ethics.
Key points
- 01
Conversion
Leaving bad faith requires changing relationships to projects and others.
- 02
Generosity
Wanting others to create opens a relationship different from appropriation.
- 03
History
Moral action confronts domination and the means of changing it.
How to read it
Follow variations of the same idea and preserve the formulations' exploratory character.
Editions & sources
Summaries and key points are original editorial interpretations. They accompany reading the work and do not replace an edition of the text. Editorial method ↗