Situation is the fused double determination of freedom and facticity
Evidence
Moreover the ensemble exists only in relation to a free project of my possibilities. Jealousy, as the possibility which I am, organizes this instrumental complex by transcending it toward itself. But I am this jealousy; I do not know it. If I contemplated it instead of making it, then only the worldly complex of instrumentality could teach it to me. This ensemble in the world with its double and inverted determination (there is a spectacle to be seen behind the door only because I am jealous, but my jealousy is nothing except the simple objective fact that there is a sight to be seen behind the door)—this we shall call situation. This situation reflects to me at once both my facticity and my freedom; on the occasion of a certain objective structure of the world which surrounds me, it refers my freedom to me in the form of tasks to be freely done. There is no constraint here since my freedom eats into my possibles and since correlatively the potentialities of the world indicate and offer only themselves. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 725
Categorization
- DEFINE: Precise definition of ‘situation’ as the double and inverted determination of a free project and an objective worldly ensemble.
- XREF: Directly sets up Beauvoir’s situation-based ethics in The Second Sex; also connects to Heidegger’s Geworfenheit (thrownness). — connects to: Facticity is only ever graspable as already recovered and freely constructed — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 345; Freedom and facticity are mutually condition each other’s existence. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1176; Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1164 (+6 more)
- BMF: The jealous jealous-perceiver whose jealousy is only the objective fact that there is a sight behind the door—a self constituted purely by an external spectacle—resonates with We’s D-503 as he becomes an observer-observed under the One State.Good.
Broader Connections
- Freedom and facticity are mutually condition each other’s existence.
#corroborates(0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1176 - Situation arises from freely chosen ends colliding with surrounding facticity.
#expands(0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1276 - Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites
#qualifies(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1164 - The upsurge of freedom and the revelation of the given are simultaneous and inseparable
#corroborates(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1203 - Freedom is not self-founded but thrown, creating its own facticity
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1156 - Freedom chooses its being but cannot choose not to be
#complicates(0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1146