Every act emanates from a fundamental choice of being God

Evidence

Every for-itself is a free choice; each of its acts—the most insignificant as well as the most weighty—expresses this choice and emanates from it. This is what we have called our freedom. We have now grasped the meaning of this choice; it is a choice of being, either directly or by the appropriation of the world, or rather by both at once. Thus my freedom is a choice of being God and all my acts, all my projects translate this choice and reflect it in a thousand and one ways, for there is an infinity of ways of being and of ways of having. The goal of existential psycho-analysis is to rediscover through these empirical, concrete projects the original way in which each man has chosen his being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1386

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘choice of being God’ as the deep structure of all projects is the systematic backdrop Beauvoir inherits — her ethics of ambiguity turns on the impossibility yet inescapability of this project. — connects to: Every human being fundamentally desires to be God, a desire that is inherently self-contradictory. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 57; Human desire fundamentally aims at being one’s own foundation, a state called God. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1330; Human reality is the pure effort to become God, desire being its expression — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1348 (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Defines existential psycho-analysis as the recovery of the original libre choix of being through concrete projects.

Broader Connections

• Every human act makes the absolute through free choice #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 24
• All human projects aim at becoming God through self-causation #corroborates (0.88) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1445
• God is the hypostasized ideal of the impossible self-synthesis #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 363
• Every act expresses the totality of the self rather than prior causes #corroborates (0.82)
• God is both the subject doing the exposition and the subject being constituted #expands (0.78)