Freedom requires a resisting, brute world rather than being limited by it

Evidence

But this residue is far from being originally a limit for freedom; in fact, it is thanks to this residue—that is, to the brute in-itself as such—that freedom arises as freedom. Indeed common sense will agree with us that the being who is said to be free is the one who can realize his projects. But in order for the act to be able to allow a realization, the simple projection of a possible end must be distinguished a priori from the realization of this end. If conceiving is enough for realizing, then I am plunged in a world like that of a dream in which the possible is no longer in any way distinguished from the real. I am condemned hence-forth to see the world modified at the whim of the changes of my consciousness; I can not practice in relation to my conception the “putting into brackets” and the suspension of judgment which will distinguish a simple fiction from a real choice. If the object appears as soon as it is simply conceived, it will no longer be chosen or merely wished for. Once the distinction between the simple wish, the representation which I could choose, and the choice is abolished, freedom disappears too. … Consequently the resistance which freedom reveals in the existent, far from being a danger to freedom, results only in enabling it to arise as freedom. There can be a free for-itself only as engaged in a resisting world. Outside of this engagement the notions of freedom, of determinism, of necessity lose all meaning. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1153

Categorization

• XREF: Core existentialist ontology of freedom grounded in the in-itself/for-itself distinction, precisely the backdrop Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity builds on. — connects to: Finitude is the condition of freedom, since freedom requires choice. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 871; Freedom means choosing oneself within one’s world, not choosing the world itself.; Freedom depends on overcoming negativity and constraint — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 147 (+7 more)
• DEFINE: Defines freedom negatively: it requires that conceiving an end be distinct a priori from realizing it, and that reality resist the for-itself.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1153

Broader Connections

• Freedom means choosing oneself within one’s world, not choosing the world itself. #qualifies (0.85)
• The obstacles that limit freedom are constituted only by freedom’s own posited ends #contradicts (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1152
• Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1164
• Freedom has concrete content only when engaged in the world #expands (0.80)
• Freedom depends on overcoming negativity and constraint #contradicts (0.78) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 147