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dianoia-19275	Paloma Figueroa	To Live Free or To Make Excuses: In Defense of Sartre’s (Revised) Concept of Radical Freedom	2025	28	.pdf	application/pdf	10505	403	51	11Issue XII Spring 2025 To Live Free or To Make Excuses § I: NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE: SARTRE'S INITIAL CONCEPT OF FREEDOM6 Though Sartre did revise his version of existentialism later in his philosophical career, the main ideas for which he is remembered––and caricatured––stem from his initial concept of human freedom. At this point, it is important to insist that Beauvoir’s analysis does not conclude that sedimentation and oppression negate freedom: she offers a more nuanced, realistic account of freedom than Sartre, but with no less emphasis on the moral value of embracing one’s freedom––for example, through participation in collective revolt against a shared condition.41 § 2: OBJECTIONS FROM NEUROSCIENCE  So far, we have posited human freedom as a central inescapable necessity: without freedom, there can be no existentialism and both Beauvoir’s and Sartre’s entire philosophies would be rendered obsolete.	cache/dianoia-19275.pdf	txt/dianoia-19275.txt