The Sartrean Political Perspective and Successive Existentialist Conceptual Application

• Thesis title in Czech: The SarSartreova politická perspektiva a její následná existencialistická konceptuální aplikace
• Thesis title in English: The Sartrean Political Perspective and Successive Existentialist Conceptual Application
• Key words: Svoboda, Existencialismus, Marxismus, Republikanismus, Sartre
• English key words: Liberty, Existentialism, Marxism, Republicanism, Sartre
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2022/2023
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
• Supervisor: Mgr. Tomáš Halamka, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 29.04.2023
• Date of assignment: 29.04.2023
• Date and time of defence: 05.09.2024 07:00
• Venue of defence: C520, 520, seminární místnost IPS
• Date of electronic submission: 07.07.2024
• Date of proceeded defence: 05.09.2024
• Opponents: Mgr. Jakub Franěk, Ph.D.

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Preliminary scope of work

Tato disertační práce zkoumá politicko-filozofické myšlenky Jeana-Paula Sartrea, Philipa Petitta a Noama Chomského, které se zabývají jejich pohledy na svobodu, spravedlnost a společenskou nerovnost. Analyzuje jejich přístupy k politické správě, individuální svobodě a sociální spravedlnosti, přičemž porovnává levicový a republikánský diskurz. Čtenář je seznámen s republikánským přístupem Petitta, existencialistickým myšlením Sartrea a kritickými pohledy Chomského. Práce přináší hlubší pochopení jejich teorií a jejich aplikace na současnou společnost. Zjišťuje, jak jednotlivec ovlivňuje politiku směřující k maximální rovnosti. Dále se zabývá otázkou, zda je prosazování spravedlnosti vnitřní nebo vnější. Analýza se soustředí na spojení mezi svobodou a nedominací a rostoucí nezbytností systémování ve společnosti. Sartreova vize spojení komunistické ekonomické organizace s existencialistickými tématy zdůrazňuje napětí mezi kolektivním řízením a individualismem.

Preliminary scope of work in English

The thesis investigates the political-philosophical thoughts of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philip Pettit, and Noam Chomsky, canvassing their respective axioms on freedom and its confines, and expounding on modernist societal affairs. Namely, issues such as political administration, commonwealth disparity, and various societal dimensions of individual self-governance. By representing both leftist and republican discourse, the present study shall therefore elucidate multiple rousing dichotomies. What pertinence does the individual hold in policy appertaining to the maximisation of equity? Is opinion on the implementation of justice intrinsic or extrinsic? An in-depth analysis through Sartre’s lens on material constructivism is demonstrated in a chronologically coherent substructure: firstly, offering opposition in the form of Pettit's pragmatic republican principles, and simultaneously revealing a nexus of his and Sartre’s lines of thought. The ensuing supplementary angle will show a permeation of existentialist influence, seconded through a dimension of leftist reformist thought, through Chomsky’s controversial appraisals. An interrelation between liberty and non-domination, draws deliberately on humanist entanglements within revisionist societal paradigms and a growing indispensability of systematisation. Sartre's vision of a societal fusion - a blend of communist economic organisation availing of existentialist themes - ultimately emphasises the tension between collective governance and individualism.