¿Acaso si Dios no existe todo está permitido? Dostoyevski, la moral sartreana, la esperanza frankleana y el recuerdo de las víctimas

Antonia Tejeda Barros

doi:10.24310/contrastes.29.2.2024.17449

Authors

Antonia Tejeda Barros Tiergarten 4 Association, Berlín Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7292-1939

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/contrastes.29.2.2024.17449

Keywords:

Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Frankl, existentialism, freedom, responsability, meaning, God, Holocaust, Shoah, Auschwitz

Abstract

Is it possible a morality without God (Jean-Paul Sartre) or with a god which exists in a suprahuman dimension (Viktor Frankl)? The famous "quote" by Dostoevsky ("If God does not exist, everything is permitted") was not written like that by Dostoevsky. The Holocaust, as a turning point and as an interruption in history, philosophy, and theology, opens new questions "after" Auschwitz. In this paper I discuss Sartrean and Franklean morality while analzing the famous "quote" by Dostoevsky and wondering if a morality with an absent God can prevent future barbarities.

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Author Biography

Antonia Tejeda Barros, Tiergarten 4 Association, Berlín

Antonia Tejeda Barros (Barcelona, 1975) got her PhD in Philosophy (UNED, 2023, cum laude) with her thesis: "Viktor Emil Frankl y Jean-Paul Sartre: la religión a pesar de Auschwitz y una libertad sin Dios. El sentido y sinsentido del sufrimiento de las víctimas" ["Viktor Emil Frankl and Jean-Paul Sartre: religion in spite of Auschwitz and freedom without God. The meaning and meaninglessness of the victims' suffering"]. She also holds a MA in Philosophy (UNED, 2015, cum laude) and a Bachelor of Arts (Early Music, Recorder, and Pedagogy, 2002, Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague).

She was a gifted child. Her areas of research are existentialism (Sartre), Viktor Frankl, the Holocaust, antisemitism, aesthetics of music, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega, Camus, and Hannah Arendt. She works as volunteer as Archival Intern at the Holocaust Museum LA, USA, translating letters written by Holocaust victims from Gurs and KZ Mauthausen. She is currently translating into Spanish the official website of the Mémorial du Camp de Gurs, France, while working on her articles and on her book about Sartre, Frankl, and the Holocaust. She is a contributor and researcher at the Tiergarten 4 Association in Berlin. She has been invited to lecture about Viktor Frankl at the Centro-Sefarad Israel (Madrid, Spain).

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