No one can determine their own life within a comprehensible framework

Evidence

It is the signature of our age that no-one, without exception, can now determine his own life within even a moderately comprehensible framework, as was possible earlier in the assessment of market relationships. In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 33

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that universal objecthood — including of the powerful — has abolished self-determination even where it seemed possible is the chapter’s densest formulation.
• XREF: connects to: The self I am depends on a future self it cannot determine — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 239; The self discovers itself only in situation and must alone sustain all values; Ontology cannot predict the content of any individual’s free acts (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The self I am depends on a future self it cannot determine #corroborates (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 239
• Ontology cannot predict the content of any individual’s free acts #expands (0.80)
• The self discovers itself only in situation and must alone sustain all values #expands (0.78)
• Self-perception is impossible because the for-itself is contingency #corroborates (0.75)