, Merleau-Ponty heavily criticizes the Sartrean stand, criticising it as a reformulation of simple Stoic tenets. One can't believe liberty in isolation from the liberty of Many others. Action is participatory: “…my independence is interwoven with that of Other individuals By the use of the earth” (Merleau-Ponty in Stewart 1995:315). https://youtu.be/ZacJTN9xkEs