Fundamental projects must be freely and continuously re-chosen rather than settled once

Evidence

It amounts to saying that by means of the will, we can construct ourselves entirely, but that the will which presides over this construction finds its meaning in the original project which it can appear to deny, that consequently this construction has a function wholly different from that which it advertises, and that finally it can reach only details of structures and will never modify the original project from which it has issued any more than the consequences of a theorem can turn back against it and change it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1138 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

When one fights for the emancipation of oppressed natives, or the socialist revolution, he is obviously aiming at a long range goal; and he is still aiming at it concretely, beyond his own death, through the movement, the league, the institutions, or the party that he has helped set up. What we maintain is that one must not expect that this goal be justified as a point of departure of a new future; insofar as we no longer have a hold on the time which will flow beyond its coming, we must not expect anything of that time for which we have worked; other men will have to live its joys and sorrows. As for us, the goal must be considered as an end; we have to justify it on the basis of our freedom which has projected it, by the ensemble of the movement which ends in its fulfillment. The tasks we have set up for ourselves and which, though exceeding the limits of our lives, are ours, must find their meaning in themselves and not in a mythical Historical end. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 121 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Each resolution must be freely re-created rather than persist as a force — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 240; Our fundamental project creates all the motives that could ever revise it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1121; Individual acts express and are unchangeable apart from one’s original project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1119 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Particular projects remain free choices rather than being determined by the global project #corroborates (0.85)
• The will can reshape details but never its originating fundamental project #contradicts (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1138
• Long-range projects must justify themselves without appeal to a mythical future #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 121