The Other’s freedom becomes a limit only through one’s own free choice.
Evidence
Thus freedom is fully responsible and makes the unrealizable limits enter into the situation by choosing to be a freedom limited by the Other’s freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1240
Categorization
- XREF: Directly anticipates Beauvoir’s ethics of situated, embodied freedom — being-for-others as constitutive constraint. — connects to: One’s own body escapes instrumental utilization unless mediated through the Other.; One can act on the Other only once their freedom has collapsed. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 966; The obstacles that limit freedom are constituted only by freedom’s own posited ends — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1152 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Others’ freedom is the condition of, not a limit on, my own freedom
#corroborates(0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 91 - Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others
#corroborates(0.90) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 144 - One person’s freedom often requires another person’s freedom to be curtailed.
#contradicts(0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 132