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taken. Existentialists would have the advantages and disadvantages of relying upon conscience for-oneself more so than citizens and others that allow themselves to become a part of an unexamined social moral practico-inert ossified field of serial praxis cuing them up into right and wrong behaviors.

Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were existentialists and moralists. Each took prominent public stands in their time on political and social issues of a moral nature. Existentialists may form general humanist principles regarding equal valuation of subjective experience. Alterity (the other) may be modified intentionally though encouragement of equality in objective political treatment and service.

Together the leading French existential couple opposed the French Algerian war after allegations of torture of captives by French forces was reported. In this sense they were not unlike some American resistance to human rights violations of inmates at Abu Graib, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in disposable incarceration and torture facilities used by the U.S. Government underground in Europe and elsewhere.

These tortures are not much comparable; today the standards are higher and testicles are not amputated en mass from captives nor are eyes gouged out routinely, yet the stand that these French existentialists took was an active agent of change perhaps leading to improvements in the human condition, debatably.

De Beauvoir was known for advancing feminist moral values while Sartre worked with more general political concerns such as bridging the gap between communism and existentialist moral values, in the Critique of Dialectical Reason' he accomplished that goal with the social payoff perhaps found in the many rivulets leading to the raging torrent of glasnost, perestroika and the turn of the Soviet Union toward westernization (paradoxically the Bush administration later sought to go it alone' on issues of global warming and rebuilding Iraq).

Humanism and religious beliefs in spiritual values in support of compassionate moral philosophy each are disregarded by a presenting scientism that denies any special value to human experience at all. For the scientist a rock is as meaningful as a mind an has equally meaningless moral claims.
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Existentialism isn't simply a being without meaning phenomenally; it is an analysis or ontology of phenomenalism. One should a priori discontent the idea that because existence is, therefore it is meaningless and implicitly without possibility of valid moral systems. That concept is more improbably than Descartes' cogito ergo sum certainly, that has for-itself been generally criticized by many deconstructionists setting to disprove the possibility of valid moral systems.

Ontologically there may be valid systems of natural law with grounding in a coherence theory derived from nature. Every human needs to breathe and it is implicitly considered wrong by most to stop another from breathing. It is recognized by most humans that wickedness is done when one prevents another from breathing natural law is broken when one does, generally.

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Sartre wrote the tome 'Critique of Dialectical Reason' and published it in 1960 following the seminal 'Being and Nothingness' published in 1943. The Critique answered, to a certain extent, several of the questions people have about the content of phenomenal or 'existential' experience. Dialectical reason is the social interaction regarded as phenomenalities that occur between people. In 'Being and Nothingness'.

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Sa rtre used a description of group consciousness or concurrence of individual consciousness in a public event in Being and Nothingness that was the storming of the Bastille. In the Critique Sartre used an illustration of a factory and its workers to flesh out the initial individual experience and describe how it works in a group context. In a section from the Critique Sartre describes The Fused Group'

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continuing the essential notion of Sartre' construction of existentialism as "an essay on phenomenological ontology" the complex praxis of a fused group in a sense sets the groundwork for an 'existentialist' or phenomenological theory of morality.

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Morality has been described by some as simply what it is that people actually do ethically. Rather than choosing to create and follow their own ethical or empirical structures people inherit an

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