Choosing oneself as the supreme end produces slavery, not freedom

Evidence

It would be a grave error to believe that in choosing herself as the supreme end, she escapes dependence: on the contrary, she dooms herself to the most severe slavery; she does not make the most of her freedom, she makes herself an endangered object in the world and in foreign consciousnesses. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1834

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Sartre’s bad faith and the master-slave dialectic; also to the ‘praying mantis’ figure elsewhere in feminist theory about female predatory power. — connects to: The master’s self-certainty remains incomplete because the slave’s recognition is non-essential — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 685; Denying that one freely chooses ends makes one enslaved to those ends — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 46; Slavery exists wherever men are forced to follow others’ prescribed purposes (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Denying that one freely chooses ends makes one enslaved to those ends #corroborates (0.90) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 46
• Freedom that withdraws into self-interest denies its own nature #corroborates (0.90)
• Slavery exists wherever men are forced to follow others’ prescribed purposes #corroborates (0.78)