The ethical problem of Being and Nothingness always concerned collectivity, not individual style

Evidence

But it is also claimed that existentialism is a philosophy of the absurd and of despair. It encloses man in a sterile anguish, in an empty subjectivity. It is incapable of furnishing him with any principle for making choices. Let him do as he pleases. In any case, the game is lost. Does not Sartre declare, in effect, that man is a “useless passion,” that he tries in vain to realize the synthesis of the for-oneself and the in-oneself, to make himself God? It is true. But it is also true that the most optimistic ethics have all begun by emphasizing the element of failure involved in the condition of man; without failure, no ethics; for a being who, from the very start, would be an exact co-incidence with himself, in a perfect plenitude, the notion of having-to-be would have no meaning. One does not offer an ethics to a God. It is impossible to propose any to man if one defines him as nature, as something given. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 5 (#expands, via linked claim)

In Being and Nothingness, the situation was merely a backdrop, the condition from which our freedom would try to free itself, or would use to reveal itself (it is this dimension of Sartrean thought that is rendered by the provocative and brisk formula: “We were never as free as under the German occupation”). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 456 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ethics is only possible given a gap between oneself and oneself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 5; In Being and Nothingness situation was backdrop rather than constituent of freedom — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 456

Broader Connections

• Ethics is only possible given a gap between oneself and oneself #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 5
• In Being and Nothingness situation was backdrop rather than constituent of freedom #corroborates (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 456