Freedom and facticity are mutually condition each other’s existence.
Evidence
To be sure, in being born I take a place, but I am responsible for the place which I take. We can see clearly here the inextricable connection of freedom and facticity in the situation. Without facticity freedom would not exist—as a power of nihilation and of choice —and without freedom facticity would not be discovered and would have no meaning. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1176
Categorization
- XREF: The mutual conditioning of freedom and facticity is the precise systematic backdrop Beauvoir builds from in The Ethics of Ambiguity. — connects to: Situation is the fused double determination of freedom and facticity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 725; Facticity makes the for-itself both wholly responsible and wholly unjustifiable. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 837; Freedom constitutes its own obstacles by positing ends that render facticity restrictive. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1176 (+10 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that only freedom can give facticity meaning — that facticity would otherwise be mute — is a dense, paradigm-shifting thesis about the co-constitution of restriction and liberty.
Broader Connections
- Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites
#corroborates(1.00) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1164 - The upsurge of freedom and the revelation of the given are simultaneous and inseparable
#corroborates(0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1203 - Freedom is not self-founded but thrown, creating its own facticity
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1156 - Situation arises from freely chosen ends colliding with surrounding facticity.
#expands(0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1276 - Freedom chooses its being but cannot choose not to be
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1146 - Freedom cannot choose its own past but must exist through it.
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1177