The Habit of Freedom: A Discussion of Identity and Being Público

Abstract

This thesis utilizes a phenomenological methodology to examine the relationship between the freedom inherent in being a subject and the structure of habit, as the implicit passing forth of one's identity. The work questions whether habits signify permanent constraints upon a subject's inherent freedom. This thesis is organized into four chapters. The first chapter focuses upon the radical differences in being exhibited by a subject and an object. The second chapter examines the phenomenon of bad faith as a position a subject may take towards his or her being, in the form of an evasion. The third chapter focuses upon the subject's first experience of his or her being, as well as how this experience may act as dispositional towards the adoption of bad faith. The fourth and final section gives an account of the subject as an embodied conscious and considers the relation between habit and freedom.

Table of Contents

Introduction…...................................................................................................1-3

Chapter I: Being-as-Subject distinguished from Being-as-Object …………………..….…4-14

1.1 Description of an Object…………………………......................……………………………………….…4-7

1.2 Rejection of the Natural Attitude……………….................………………………………………..…..7-9

1.3 Understanding a Subject…………………………....................………………………………………...9-10

1.4 Freedom inherent in being-for-itself………………..............…………...………………………...10-14

Chapter II: The Phenomenon of Bad Faith ………...........………………………..……………...15-25

2.1 Description of a Subject in Bad Faith……………...............……………………………………….15-16

2.2 Three Guiding Questions………………………………………………......................…………………….16

2.3 What is the Lie?.......................................................................................16-18

2.4 What is the Impetus behind the Lie?............................................................19-21

2.5 How can one Lie?.....................................................................................21-25

Chapter III: Childhood ………………………………………………………….....................…………..26-32

3.1 The Serious World of the Child……………………………………….................…………………..26-28

3.2 Metaphysical Privilege and its Break………………………………...............…………………….28-30

3.3 Childhood as dispositional of Bad Faith…………………………...............………………………30-32

Chapter IV: Habit ........................................................................................33-58

4.1 Embodied Consciousness……………………………………………....................…………………...33-47

4.2 Habit………………………………………………………………............................……………………...47-51

4.3 Habit and Freedom…………………………………….......................………………………………….51-58

Works Cited ……………………...……………………………..........................………………………………...59

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School	Emory College
Department	Philosophy
Degree	BA
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Philosophy
Palabra Clave	Identity Being Phenomenology
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Bredlau, Susan M, Emory University
Committee Members	Flynn, Thomas R, Emory University Finkelstein, Shlomit Ritz, Emory University

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