Our fundamental project creates all the motives that could ever revise it

Evidence

Nevertheless let us thoroughly understand that our actual choice is such that it furnishes us with no motive for making it past by means of a further choice. … In fact, it is this original choice which originally creates all causes and all motives which can guide us to partial actions; it is this which arranges the world with its meaning, its instrumental-complexes, and its coefficient of adversity. … The absolute change which threatens us from our birth until our death remains perpetually unpredictable and incomprehensible. … To “understand” them in fact would be already to have chosen them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1121

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates Beauvoir’s account of freedom and the situated project in The Second Sex — this is the systematic backdrop she builds from. — connects to: Every human project is grasped by referencing other possibles back to an ultimate possibility. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1112; Individual passions are surface expressions of one total fundamental project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1147; The fundamental project is the for-itself’s choice of its own being-in-the-world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1107 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the causal priority of the original choice: it generates motives, not the reverse.

Broader Connections

• Individual passions are surface expressions of one total fundamental project #expands (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1147
• The fundamental project is the for-itself’s choice of its own being-in-the-world. #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1107
• Fundamental projects must be freely and continuously re-chosen rather than settled once #contradicts (0.85)