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2007 , Vol. 2 >Issue 3: 412 - 422

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-007-0026-y

Imagination of the evil

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  • Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China;

Published date: 05 Sep 2007

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Abstract

Sartre s transcendence of the ego  means that consciousness is outside of the ego, that the ego is the ego of the other , and that the other is neither in consciousness nor in the ego. Sartre viewed reflection  as a pure mood rather than as the substantial carrier of mood. The strangeness and absurdity of the world emerge from this reflection. Sartre s imagination of the evil  has two aspects. On the one hand, evil  corresponds to the concept of the other, transcending the capacity for domination of the ego; on the other hand, imagination is related to the other in a broad sense, with the ability to transform philistinism  and evil  into marvels.

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SHANG Jie . Imagination of the evil[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2007 , 2(3) : 412 -422 . DOI: 10.1007/s11466-007-0026-y

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