One can act on the Other only once their freedom has collapsed.

Evidence

My disappointment is complete since I seek to appropriate the Other’s freedom and perceive suddenly that I can act upon the Other only in so far as this freedom has collapsed beneath my look. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 966

Categorization

• QUESTION: This seems to frame the fundamental paradox of the for-itself’s desire for the Other—appropriating freedom destroys what is appropriated.
• XREF: connects to: The Other’s freedom becomes a limit only through one’s own free choice. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1240; One person’s freedom often requires another person’s freedom to be curtailed. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132; Acts that respect one person’s freedom can tyrannize another’s. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The Other’s freedom becomes a limit only through one’s own free choice. #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1240
• Acts that respect one person’s freedom can tyrannize another’s. #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132
• A person who has lost own freedom cannot wager another’s #qualifies (0.80) — , A Year of World Stories, 7027
• Tolerance and even abstention also violate the Other’s freedom. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1008
• One person’s freedom often requires another person’s freedom to be curtailed. #complicates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132
• Conflict between freedoms is overcome only through mutual reciprocal recognition. #complicates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 317