9.  From Absurdity to Authenticity
Channel: Rethinking Existentialism
Date: 2016-02-09

Jonathan Webber argues that the approach to ethics found in Sartre's initial form of existentialism and suggested by Fanon's psychiatric theory cannot ground the claim that authenticity is a virtue that everyone ought to develop. In the absence of such an imperative, there seems to be no constraint on which values we may pursue, with the results that life is absurd and everything is permitted. These conclusions cannot be avoided simply by indicating some benefits of authenticity.

A film of the Rethinking Existentialism project. Recorded 20 January 2016. http://bit.ly/RethinkingExistentialism