ABSTRACT
Jean-Paul Sartre treats authority as a human activity. Authority is not a structure or a group of regulations, but is the product of a concrete individual or subgroup fulfilling a function for a particular purpose. In the process of institutionalization, two transformations take place: the first is the sanctification of inertia and the second is the acceptance of general authority. Sartre treats authority as a human activity. Authority is not a structure or a group of regulations, but is the product of a concrete individual or subgroup fulfilling a function for a particular purpose. The most obvious expression of authority is the State, which unites all institutions. In his analysis of the State, Sartre reemphasizes the fact that he is providing those fundamental considerations which are necessary for formal intelligibility, rather than analyzing the genesis, types and aspects of the State. For Sartre, society is an indeterminate structure, composed of praxis groups and series in the process of transformation.
