The passionate man fails where subjectivity, not content, cannot fulfill itself
Evidence
The passionate man is, in a way, the antithesis of the adventurer. In him too there is a sketch of the synthesis of freedom and its content. But in the adventurer it is the content which does not succeed in being genuinely fulfilled. Whereas in the passionate man it is subjectivity which fails to fulfill itself genuinely. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 65
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Symmetry principle for the typology: adventurer fails on content, passionate man fails on subjectivity — a clean sorting schema.
Related
- Passion differs from seriousness by disclosing its object through subjective involvement (similarity 0.82)
- The passionate man, though admired from afar, cannot commune and readily turns violent (similarity 0.80)
- The passionate man’s project depopulates the world and leaves him unfulfilled (similarity 0.79)
- The serious man submits his freedom to supposedly unconditioned absolute ends (similarity 0.79)
- The adventurer’s fault is denying that his subjectivity necessarily transcends toward others (similarity 0.78)