Situation arises from freely chosen ends colliding with surrounding facticity.

Evidence

I am an existent in the midst of other existents. But I can not “realize” this existence in the midst of others; I can not apprehend as objects the existents which surround me nor apprehend myself as a surrounded existence nor even give a meaning to this notion of “in the midst of” except by choosing myself—not in my being but in my manner of being. The choice of this end is the choice of what is not-yet-existing. My position in the midst of the world is defined by the relation between the instrumental utility or adversity in the realities which surround me and my own facticity; that is, the discovery of the dangers which I risk in the world, of the obstacles which I can encounter there, the aid which can be offered me, all in the light of a radical nihilation of myself and of a radical, internal negation of the in-itself and all effected from the point of view of a freely posited end. This is what we mean by the situation. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1276

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘situation’ as the correlation between freely posited ends and the instrumental/adverse given.
• XREF: Foundational backdrop to Beauvoir’s situated freedom in The Second Sex. — connects to: Situation is the fused double determination of freedom and facticity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 725; Cause is the objective situation apprehended as a means toward a presupposed end — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1086; Cause, motive, and end are indissoluble terms of a single free projection. (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom constitutes its own obstacles by positing ends that render facticity restrictive. #expands (0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1176
• Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1164