My total project and the world as totality are strictly correlative notions.

Evidence

Thus the first phenomenon of being in the world is the original relation between the totality of the in-itself or world and my own totality detotalized; I choose myself as a whole in the world which is a whole. … Thus my ultimate and total possibility, as the original integration of all my particular possibles, and the world as the totality which comes to existents by my upsurge ino being are two strictly correlative notions. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1114

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines the correlation between the for-itself’s ultimate total possibility and the in-itself’s unity as a world.
  • XREF: Sets up the systemic backdrop to Beauvoir’s account of situated freedom and the concrete project in The Ethics of Ambiguity. — connects to: The meaning of one’s place depends entirely on the project one chooses.; The body is constituted as the totality of its meaningful relations to the world; Willing finite projects absolutely is how one fulfills oneself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 120

Broader Connections