Sartre’s Notion of Human Reality: Why We are Radically Free within Our Social Roles
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Abstract
In a rigid social structure where individuals are assigned specific roles and are expected to behave according to such roles, do we still have the freedom of making meaning that transcends our social roles? Moreover, can we be different from and more than our social roles? This paper examines how Jean-Paul Sartre argues that we have the radical freedom to make meaning transcendent to our given roles despite living in a rigid social structure. According to Sartre, human consciousness has a nihilating structure that makes it non- identical to the things in the world. Such structure prevents us from having a fixed identity that is entirely identical to our social role. The social pressure for individuals to only act as their social roles seems to undermine the very nihilating structure of consciousness since it simply reduces individuals to their social roles. However, such an attempt that treats people as things will always fail. Even though individuals may act according to their social roles due to social pressure, such pressure does not undermine the nihilating structure of consciousness. Thus, we still hold the radical power and freedom to take up our social roles and make different meanings out of them.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.036 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".