ABSTRACT
All through Sartrean scholarship, Sartre’s ontological concepts in Being and Nothingness were explained through Husserl’s and Heidegger’s phenomenology, his political concepts in Critique of Dialectical Reason were clarifi ed by means of Hegel’s master-slave dyad and Marx’s materialist dialectics, and his ethics was juxtaposed and compared with Kant’s kingdom of ends.1 Although Sartre made references to these methodologies when advancing his concepts, his methodologies can be set apart from these theories by the fact that they are grounded in his existential humanism-the idea that human actions are the result of choices made in ethical and political situations. Consequently, concepts featured in his ontology, ethics and politics were not direct applications of those methods he adopted; as suggested by traditional readings of his works; but are in fact distinctively Sartrean.
