Religious conviction’s bodily seriousness parallels emotion’s physiological accompaniment for Sartre.

Evidence

Even if the body makes its appearance in the treatise at a rather late stage, it is necessary from the outset that consciousness be embodied. Sartre’s phenomenological ontology leads him to distinguish between a being in-itself and a being for-itself. Th e for-itself is an embodied consciousness; that is, it is a consciousness that exists as conscious (of) the world. It can be conscious (of) insofar as it is anchored in the in-itself as an embodied being. Th e body allows consciousness to have experiences and thus to exist. As a result, the body is presented as being the condition of existence for consciousness. I am situated in the world, and my situation, my facticity, is my body. Th e body is “the contingent form which is assumed by the necessity of my contingency” (BN, 408). If I exist, it is necessary that I have a body and that I be in a situation. But it is contingent that I have this body and that I be in this situation. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 97 (#expands, via linked claim)

In any case, such an analysis unveils a view of the body as an instrument of the project that consciousness is. Th e hiker uses her body as a tool and can freely decide to use it despite the instrument’s fatigue. All is a “matter of will.” Aside from showing a poor appreciation on Sartre’s part of physiological demands of the body, this example also shows how Sartre puts emphasis on consciousness as being in command. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 119 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: For Sartre the body is a willed instrument that consciousness commands — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 119; Embodiment is the necessary contingent condition anchoring consciousness in the world for Sartre — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 97

Broader Connections

• Embodiment is the necessary contingent condition anchoring consciousness in the world for Sartre #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 97
• For Sartre the body is a willed instrument that consciousness commands #qualifies (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 119