Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites

Evidence

Thus we begin to catch a glimpse of the paradox of freedom: there is freedom only in a situation, and there is a situation only through freedom. Human-reality everywhere encounters resistance and obstacles which it has not created, but these resistances and obstacles have meaning only in and through the free choice which human-reality is. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1164

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core ontological thesis: the situation is not a limit on freedom but its necessary condition; freedom and situation are two moments of one structure.
• XREF: Directly sets up Beauvoir’s question of how freedom is situated in a world of facticity; also echoes Heidegger’s thrownness (Geworfenheit) as projected. — connects to: The psyche becomes a real situation that conditions free choices; Situation is the fused double determination of freedom and facticity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 725; Freedom requires a resisting, brute world rather than being limited by it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1153 (+36 more)

Broader Connections

• Genuine authority and freedom are mutually dependent, not opposed #epitomizes (0.92) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 572
• In Being and Nothingness situation was backdrop rather than constituent of freedom #contradicts (0.92) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 456
• Others constitute the situation that gives individual freedom its concrete content #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 453