Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov and existentialist thinkers like Sartre establish that a self constituted through radical self-definition can coherently and permanently refuse external reconciliation as a condition of its own integrity.
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Radical self-definition(as the core concept in the statement)
The idea that a person can completely create their own identity and values through their own choices, without relying on society, tradition, or anyone else to tell them who to be.
Sartre(the main philosopher being discussed)
Jean-Paul Sartre was a 20th-century French philosopher who argued that humans are fundamentally free to create their own meaning and identity, and that this freedom comes with responsibility.
external(Collier's technical usage in Clavis Universalis)
Independent, absolute, or self-existent.
reconciliation(Hegel's proposed remedy for subjective alienation)
The Hegelian process by which individuals come to recognise the existing social world as already objectively 'a home', thereby overcoming subjective alienation