Freedom aims to disclose being, not to capture or fix it.
Evidence
But this act of passing beyond is conceivable only if what the content has in view is not to bar up the future, but, on the contrary, to plan new possibilities. This brings us back by another route to what we had already indicated. My freedom must not seek to trap being but to disclose it. The disclosure is the transition from being to existence. The goal which my freedom aims at is conquering existence across the always inadequate density of being. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 27
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines free action in positive terms: disclosure of being rather than possession of things.
Related
- Freedom has concrete content only when engaged in the world (similarity 0.86)
- Freedom that withdraws into self-interest denies its own nature (similarity 0.84)
- Freedom exists only by being conquered from original spontaneous existence (similarity 0.84)
- Freedom is meaningful only as engaged by free choice of ends (similarity 0.84)
- Freedom constitutes my being rather than attaching to it as a property (similarity 0.82)
- Willing one’s freedom and willing that being exist are one choice (similarity 0.81)
- Freedom’s only limit is itself; we cannot choose not to be free (similarity 0.81)
- Freedom exists only as engaged, self-choosing action, never as undetermined potential (similarity 0.80)
- Freedom is the being that makes itself a lack of being through desire (similarity 0.80)
- Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others (similarity 0.80)
- Freedom is the nihilation of a being it is, not something added later. (similarity 0.80)
- Freedom is the original upsurge that posits one’s ultimate ends. (similarity 0.80)
- Progress means expanding existence, not approaching a fixed ideal (similarity 0.80)
- True freedom collapses the separation between means and ends (similarity 0.79)
- Freedom precedes essence and is indistinguishable from being human (similarity 0.79)