ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how an existentialist morality that is based on human freedom might resolve the spirituality problem. According to Sartre, human beings establish morality for themselves by creating values and, in so doing, transcend their situations. Drawing on critics such as Iris Murdoch and Charles Taylor, the chapter argues that this view fails to support a satisfactory resolution to the spirituality problem. Unconstrained by a sense of external necessity, the free agent's moral choices are shallow, indulgent, and trivial, and a life grounded on existentialist freedom is ultimately unsustainable for a human being. The discussion shows that any resolution to the spirituality problem must put a person in touch with an objective reality or necessity larger than herself that commands obedience.
