Grace disguises facticity by clothing the naked flesh in an invisible garment.

Evidence

Nevertheless if the body is wholly within the act, the facticity is not yet flesh. The obscene appears when the body adopts postures which entirely strip it of its acts and which reveal the inertia of its flesh. The sight of a naked body from behind is not obscene. But certain involuntary waddlings of the rump are obscene. This is because then it is only the legs which are acting for the walker, and the rump is like an isolated cushion which is carried by the legs and the balancing of which is a pure obedience to the laws of weight. It can not be justified by the situation; on the contrary, it is entirely destructive of any situation since it has the passivity of a thing and since it is made to rest like a thing upon the legs. Suddenly it is revealed as an unjustifiable facticity; it is de trop like every contingent. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 993 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Modesty and in particular the fear of being surprised in a state of nakedness are only a symbolic specification of original shame; the body symbolizes here our defenseless state as objects. To put on clothes is to hide one’s object-state; it is to claim the right of seeing without being seen; that is, to be pure subject. This is why the Biblical symbol of the fall after the original sin is the fact that Adam and Eve “know that they are naked.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 784 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shame at nakedness symbolizes the human condition of being seen as an object. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 784; The obscene is revealed facticity stripped of its acts and situation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 993; Intimacy strips disguises to expose the other’s flesh as pure contingency — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 897 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Grace is the appearance of freedom embodied as necessity in the body-as-instrument. #expands (0.85)
• The obscene is revealed facticity stripped of its acts and situation #corroborates (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 993
• Shame at nakedness symbolizes the human condition of being seen as an object. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 784
• Sadism is the attempt to reverse grace’s relation, making facticity contain hidden freedom. #complicates (0.78)
• Intimacy strips disguises to expose the other’s flesh as pure contingency #complicates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 897
• Desire strips the Other’s body of movement and garb to reveal pure flesh #contradicts (0.72)