Sartre defined slavery as dependence on another’s freedom that grounds one’s own being

Evidence

I am a slave to the degree that my being is dependent at the very center of a freedom which is not mine and which is the very condition of my being. Insofar as I am the object of values which come to qualify me without my being able to act on this qualifi cation or even know it, I am enslaved. (BN, 267; EN, 326) Sartre’s revised notion of self, qua partially constituted by, and hence dependent upon, Others, in turn, demands the abandonment of absolute freedom. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 172

Categorization

• XREF: This phenomenological definition of enslavement resonates with Beauvoir’s analyses of woman as the Other in The Second Sex. — connects to: The inseparability of freedom and power undercuts Sartre’s claim that slaves are free — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 501; Slavery exists wherever men are forced to follow others’ prescribed purposes; Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The inseparability of freedom and power undercuts Sartre’s claim that slaves are free #contradicts (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 501
• Slavery exists wherever men are forced to follow others’ prescribed purposes #expands (0.80)
• Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144
• Denying that one freely chooses ends makes one enslaved to those ends #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 46
• Individual freedom is grounded in meanings others have already established. #complicates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 75