Emancipatory ends must already be operative in the means that achieve them.

Evidence

Even valid projects of emancipation may involve confl icts, she notes. For example, “during the course of the last war, no [European] anti-fascist could have wanted the revolts of the natives in the British empire to be successful; on the contrary, these revolts were supported by the Fascist regimes; and yet, we cannot blame those who, considering their emancipation to be more urgent, took advantage of the situation to obtain it. Th us, it is possible, and oft en happens, that one fi nds oneself obliged to oppress and kill men who are pursuing goals whose validity one acknowledges oneself” (EA, 98–99). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 501 (#complicates, via linked claim)

We shall therefore use the term cause for the objective apprehension of a determined situation as this situation is revealed in the light of a certain end as being able to serve as the means for attaining this end. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1086 (#expands, via linked claim)

We are free when the final term by which we make known to ourselves what we are is an end; that is, not a real existent like that which in the supposition which we have made could fulfill our wish, but an object which does not yet exist. But consequently this end can be transcendent only if it is separated from us at the same time that it is accessible. Only an ensemble of real existents can separate us from this end—in the same way that this end can be conceived only as a state to-come of the real existents which separate me from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1153 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Emancipatory projects can force one to oppress others whose goals one endorses — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 501; Cause is the objective situation apprehended as a means toward a presupposed end — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1086; An end must be both accessible and separated from us by real existents — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1153 (+1 more)

Related

• Cause is the objective situation apprehended as a means toward a presupposed end (similarity 0.80)
• Emancipatory projects can force one to oppress others whose goals one endorses (similarity 0.79)
• Causes do not determine actions; causes emerge only through an already-constituted project toward ends. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Emancipatory projects can force one to oppress others whose goals one endorses #complicates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 501
• Cause is the objective situation apprehended as a means toward a presupposed end #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1086
• An end must be both accessible and separated from us by real existents #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1153