Empirical freedom is a secondary nihilation that presupposes an original nothingness

Evidence

It remains to found this empirical freedom. It can not be both the original nihilation and the ground of all nihilation. Actually it contributes to constituting transcendences in immanence which condition all negative transcendences. But the very fact that the transcendences of empirical freedom are constituted in immanence as transcendences shows us that we are dealing with secondary nihilations which suppose the existence of an original nothingness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 262

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes secondary nihilations (empirical freedom) from the original nothingness at consciousness’s heart.
• XREF: connects to: Freedom is the human capacity to put beings out of circuit behind a nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 225; Empirical freedom is a negative concept defined by absence of constraint within a situation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1158; The given never conditions freedom because freedom is its internal negation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1160 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Empirical freedom is a negative concept defined by absence of constraint within a situation. #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1158
• The given never conditions freedom because freedom is its internal negation #corroborates (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1160
• Freedom is synonymous with the for-itself’s lack of being #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1328
• Nothingness grounds negation by being itself a negation, not an empty void #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 215
• In Being and Nothingness situation was backdrop rather than constituent of freedom #corroborates (0.78) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 456
• Freedom is identical with the for-itself’s nothingness expressed as temporality, self-presence, and transcendence #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1099
• Nothingness is a supported recoil from Being that enables consciousness to exist #corroborates (0.74)
• Freedom is the being that makes itself a lack of being through desire #expands (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1331