Freedom, choice, nihilation, and temporalization are one single act

Evidence

Since, on the contrary, it is consciousness which temporalizes itself, we must conceive of the original choice as unfolding time and being one with the unity of the three ekstases. … To choose ourselves is to nihilate ourselves; that is, to cause a future to come to make known to us what we are by conferring a meaning on our past. … Thus there is not a succession of instants separated by nothingnesses—as with Descartes—such that my choice at the instant t can not act on my choice of the instant t. … Thus freedom, choice, nihilation, temporalization are all one and the same thing. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1122

Categorization

• DEFINE: Locks the identity of the four core ontological terms into a single inseparable act.
• XREF: The rejection of Husserl’s instantaneous consciousness and Descartes’ discrete instants is exactly the move Beauvoir inherits for situated freedom. — connects to: Freedom unifies past, present, and future into a single project.; Cause, motive, and end are indissoluble terms of a single free projection.; Freedom is identical with the for-itself’s nothingness expressed as temporality, self-presence, and transcendence — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1099 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom is identical with the for-itself’s nothingness expressed as temporality, self-presence, and transcendence #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1099
• For Beauvoir, freedom, value-creation, and denying Being are one and the same act #corroborates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 443
• Freedom is the for-itself’s permanent ability to nihilate its own being #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1075
• Nihilation is the permanent self-determination not to be the in-itself #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 350
• Willing one’s freedom and willing that being exist are one choice #exemplifies (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 72
• Freedom requires temporal continuity, not isolated instants of choice. #contradicts (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 24
• Freedom can objectify its own past, rupturing temporal continuity with the instant #qualifies (0.75)
• Freedom chooses its being but cannot choose not to be #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1146