Others constitute the situation that gives individual freedom its concrete content

Evidence

Th us, every man has to do with other men. Th e world in which he engages himself is a human world in which each object is penetrated with human meanings. It is a speaking world from which solicitations and appeals rise up. Th is means that, through this world, each individual can give his freedom a concrete content. He must disclose the world with the purpose of further disclosure and by the same movement try to free men, by means of whom the world takes on meaning. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 453

Categorization

• XREF: This echoes Beauvoir’s Pyrrhus and ethical writings; also the theme of liberation of others in The Ethics of Ambiguity. — connects to: The person is defined as a free relation to oneself; Being-for-others precedes and founds the experience of the we. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1017; Original sin is the fact of existing among others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1009 (+18 more)

Broader Connections

• The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 444
• Individual freedom is grounded in meanings others have already established. #expands (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 75
• Others’ freedom is the condition of, not a limit on, my own freedom #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 91
• Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144
• Willing one’s own freedom and willing others’ freedom are the same act #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 88
• One person’s freedom often requires another person’s freedom to be curtailed. #contradicts (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132
• Freedom and independence are distinct and often mutually exclusive #contradicts (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 824
• Freedom can be defined through domination rather than through respect for others. #contradicts (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 164
• Willing one’s freedom and willing that being exist are one choice #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 72
• Acts that respect one person’s freedom can tyrannize another’s. #contradicts (0.70) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132