Denying that one freely chooses ends makes one enslaved to those ends

Evidence

By virtue of the fact that he refuses to recognize that he is freely establishing the value of the end he sets up, the serious man makes himself the slave of that end. He forgets that every goal is at the same time a point of departure and that human freedom is the ultimate, the unique end to which man should destine himself. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 46

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The central paradox of the chapter: refusing one’s freedom as a value-source is itself the deepest servitude. Tightly linked to the reader’s key concern.
• XREF: connects to: The compulsion power of one’s past derives from free choice, not its content — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1194; Choosing oneself as the supreme end produces slavery, not freedom — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1834; Sartre defined slavery as dependence on another’s freedom that grounds one’s own being — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 172 (+2 more)