Freedom requires a perpetual renewal of self-choice without any support

Evidence

I choose myself perpetually and can never be merely by virtue of having-been-chosen; otherwise I should fall into the pure and simple existence of the in-itself. The necessity of perpetually choosing myself is one with the pursued-pursuit which I am. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1147

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core causal link between freedom-as-being-without-support and the necessity of perpetual re-choosing; failure to renew collapses the for-itself into the in-itself.
• XREF: This perpetual re-choosing anticipates Beauvoir’s ambivalence and the demand for ethical conversion; also resonates with the instability of the subject in Nathalie Sarraute but that is not in library. — connects to: Nihilation is the permanent self-determination not to be the in-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 350; Freedom’s responsibility falls on the self alone despite one’s un-chosen birth.; Absolute freedom makes one’s every choice perpetually fragile and invertible (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom is the for-itself’s permanent ability to nihilate its own being #expands (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1075
• Freedom means autonomy of choice, not success in obtaining one’s ends. #expands (0.87) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1154
• Freedom is synonymous with the for-itself’s lack of being #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1328
• Freedom exists only by being conquered from original spontaneous existence #complicates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 22