Freedom is meaningful only as engaged by free choice of ends

Evidence

This requires that each action be considered as a finished form whose different moments, instead of fleeing toward the future in order to find there their justification, reflect and confirm one another so well that there is no longer a sharp separation between present and future, between means and ends. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 124 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freedom is the original upsurge that posits one’s ultimate ends.; Freedom exists only as engaged, self-choosing action, never as undetermined potential — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1145; A fundamental choice is only real as a choice in the world — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1147 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom has concrete content only when engaged in the world #qualifies (0.85)
• True freedom collapses the separation between means and ends #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 124