Consciousness cannot be caused by any motivation external to itself

Evidence

For the same reasons it is impossible to assign to a consciousness a motivation other than itself. Otherwise it would be necessary to conceive that consciousness to the degree to which it is an effect, is not conscious (of) itself. It would be necessary in some manner that it should be without being conscious (of) being. We should fall into that too common illusion which makes consciousness semi-conscious or a passivity. But consciousness is consciousness through and through. It can be limited only by itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 137

Categorization

• XREF: Self-motivation of consciousness is the ontological root of Sartrean freedom that Beauvoir’s ‘ambiguity’ analysis presupposes — reader’s stated goal of a systematic backdrop. — connects to: Pure spontaneous consciousness can neither act upon nor be acted upon by things.; A nihilating being cannot be the cause of further phenomena