Freedom founds all connections and laws, then becomes bound by them

Evidence

Just as the situation is neither objective or subjective, so it can be considered neither as the free result of a freedom nor as the ensemble of the constraints to which I am subject; it stems from the illumination of the constraint by freedom which gives to it its meaning as constraint. Among brute existents there can be no connection; it is freedom which founds the connections by grouping the existents into instrumental-complexes; and it is freedom which projects the reason for the connections—that is, its end. But precisely because I project myself toward an end across a world of connections, I now meet with sequences, with linked series, with complexes, and I must determine to act according to laws. These laws and the way I make use of them decide the failure or the success of my attempts. But it is through freedom that legal relations come into the world. Thus freedom enchains itself in the world as a free project toward ends. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1282

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the situation as neither objective nor subjective but ‘illumination of the constraint by freedom’ — a load-bearing definition of a core term.
• XREF: Freedom enchaining itself as a free project connects directly to Beauvoir’s question of whether freedom can will itself — the systematic backdrop the reader is building. — connects to: Freedom is the foundational condition of all action — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1069; Freedom is the original upsurge that posits one’s ultimate ends.; Power creates freedom, not the other way around. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 273 (+4 more)
• STORYSTEM: ‘Freedom enchains itself in the world’ — the self-binding of freedom is a genuine dramatic engine for a character who creates the very constraints that trap them.

Broader Connections

• Gaining freedom paradoxically requires relinquishing some autonomy to rules. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Legal prohibitions against state control create real personal freedoms #exemplifies (0.85)
• Freedom is the foundational condition of all action #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1069
• Freedom is the original upsurge that posits one’s ultimate ends. #corroborates (0.80)
• Power creates freedom, not the other way around. #contradicts (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 273
• Freedom’s own possibilities rest on the ground of further possibilities #expands (0.80)
• Authority presupposes freedom in those subjected to it #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 4948