Freedom is the nihilation of a being it is, not something added later.

Evidence

Freedom is the escape from an engagement in being; it is the nihilation of a being which it is. This does not mean that human-reality exists first, to be free subsequently. “Subsequently” and “first” are terms created by freedom itself. … We said that freedom is not free not to be free and that it is not free not to exist. This is because the fact of not being able not to be free is the facticity of freedom, and the fact of not being able not to exist is its contingency. Contingency and facticity are really one; there is a being which freedom has to be in the form of non-being (that is, of nihilation). To exist as the fact of freedom or to have to be a being in the midst of the world are one and the same thing, and this means that freedom is originally a relation to the given. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1159

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the double nihilation structure of freedom and equates contingency with facticity.
• XREF: Underpins Beauvoir’s founding claim that freedom is the very structure of human existence. — connects to: Freedom precedes essence and is indistinguishable from being human — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 226; Nihilation is the permanent self-determination not to be the in-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 350; Freedom is the original upsurge that posits one’s ultimate ends. (+8 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The insight that ‘first’ and ‘subsequently’ are themselves terms created by freedom — temporality as a product of nihilation — is a dense, paradigm-shifting move that resists summary.

Broader Connections

• Freedom is synonymous with the for-itself’s lack of being #corroborates (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1328
• Freedom is the for-itself’s permanent ability to nihilate its own being #expands (0.93) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1075
• Freedom chooses its being but cannot choose not to be #expands (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1146
• Freedom is the being that makes itself a lack of being through desire #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1331