An emancipated society might freely choose not to develop
Evidence
Such a choice made without base of support and dictating its own causes to itself, can very well appear absurd, and in fact it is absurd. This is because freedom is a choice of its being but not the foundation of its being. We shall return to this relation between freedom and facticity in the course of this chapter. For the moment it will suffice us to say that human-reality can choose itself as it intends but is not able not to choose itself. It can not even refuse to be; suicide, in fact, is a choice and affirmation—of being. By this being which is given to it, human reality participates in the universal contingency of being and thereby in what we may call absurdity. This choice is absurd, not because it is without reason but because there has never been any possibility of not choosing oneself. Whatever the choice may be, it is founded and reapprehended by being, for it is choice which is. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1146 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The refusal to choose is itself a choice. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 26; Freedom chooses its being but cannot choose not to be — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1146; Freedom means choosing oneself within one’s world, not choosing the world itself.
Broader Connections
- Freedom chooses its being but cannot choose not to be
#qualifies(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1146 - Freedom means choosing oneself within one’s world, not choosing the world itself.
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