No exit: the matter of freedom in Sartre

Abstract

The work aims to investigate the concept of human freedom and its relations
based in the play ‘No Exit’ - Huis Clos – written by the french existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). Sartre believed that human existence is inseparable of its own liberty – within the notion of the ontology of being. The concern with individual freedom, present in the early writings of Sartre, gradually gave way to an ethic of caring for collective liberty and its consequent responsibility. To understand the concept of Sartrean freedom in the social-political struggle for human implies a constant come-to-be. It means to seek the possibility of change through a liberating and emancipatory practice to build human dignity.