Choosing a situation and choosing one’s self are inseparable daily acts
Evidence
In this war which I have chosen I choose myself from day to day, and I make it mine by making myself. If it is going to be four empty years, then it is I who bear the responsibility for this. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1290
Categorization
- XREF: This mutual constitutive relation of choice of self and choice of situation deepens the groundwork for Beauvoir’s claim that freedom and world-shaping are one act. — connects to: Anguish and responsibility are the felt consciousness of self-choice. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1118; Willed and spontaneous feelings are identical because feelings are self-choices; Personal possessions and surroundings concretely express one’s fundamental self-choice. (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Anguish and responsibility are the felt consciousness of self-choice. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1118; Willed and spontaneous feelings are identical because feelings are self-choices; Personal possessions and surroundings concretely express one’s fundamental self-choice. (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- An activity expresses my total being and original choice in that circumstance
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1326 - Every act expresses the totality of the self rather than prior causes
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