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Sartre’s Notion of Human Reality: Why We are Radically Free within Our Social Roles

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.