A prisoner is always free to project escape, whatever his condition.

Evidence

Thus we shall not say that a prisoner is always free to go out of prison, which would be absurd, nor that he is always free to long for release, which would be an irrelevant truism, but that he is always free to try to escape (or get himself liberated); that is, that whatever his condition may be, he can project his escape and learn the value of his project by undertaking some action. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1154

Categorization

• XREF: The prisoner-of-escape example is a set piece that Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity also engages directly. — connects to: Emerging from incarceration, a person can rediscover freedom through witnessing another’s captivity

Broader Connections

• Emerging from incarceration, a person can rediscover freedom through witnessing another’s captivity #expands (0.82)