Moral blame for failing to will freedom depends on access that oppression can foreclose
Evidence
If one has these resources but refuses to use them, one is in bad faith; if one has been deprived of these resources due to severe oppression, one is not. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 654
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Extreme oppression could extinguish ontological freedom while leaving biological life — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 213; Freedom can break the circle of imposed inferiority — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1979; Emancipation from society weakens rather than empowers the individual — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 169 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles
#expands(0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 495 - Powerlessness does not explain why a specific group is blamed
#qualifies(0.80) - Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1164 - Freedom can break the circle of imposed inferiority
#complicates(0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1979 - Emancipation from society weakens rather than empowers the individual
#complicates(0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 169 - Freedom depends on overcoming negativity and constraint
#complicates(0.75) — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 147