Intentionality grounds existentialist freedom by dissolving any fixed inner nature

Evidence

Reading his Husserl books in Berlin in 1933, Sartre developed his own bold interpretation of it, putting special emphasis on intentionality and the way it throws the mind out into the world and its things. For Sartre, this gives the mind an immense freedom. If we are nothing but what we think about, then no predefined ‘inner nature’ can hold us back. We are protean. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 157

Categorization

• XREF: This is the mechanistic bridge between Husserl’s phenomenology and Sartrean existentialism — exactly what the reader wants for orientation of the whole movement. — connects to: Intentionality means the mind’s constant aboutness, not deliberate purpose — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 152; The given never conditions freedom because freedom is its internal negation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1160; Beauvoir distinguishes inborn ontological freedom from willed freedom that facticity can eviscerate — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 643 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Intentionality means the mind’s constant aboutness, not deliberate purpose #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 152
• Beauvoir distinguishes inborn ontological freedom from willed freedom that facticity can eviscerate #qualifies (0.78) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 643
• The given never conditions freedom because freedom is its internal negation #corroborates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1160