The same fatigue is lived as loving appropriation within a vaster project

Evidence

If I question one of my companions, he will explain to me that he is fatigued, of course, but that he loves his fatigue; he gives himself up to it as to a bath; it appears to him in some way as the privileged instrument for discovering the world which surrounds him, for adapting himself to the rocky roughness of the paths, for discovering the “mountainous” quality of the slopes. In the same way it is this light sunburn on the back of his neck and this slight ringing in his ears which will enable him to realize a direct contact with the sun. Finally the feeling of effort is for him that of fatigue overcome. But as his fatigue is nothing but the passion which he endures so that the dust of the highways, the burning of the sun, the roughness of the roads may exist to the fullest, his effort (i.e., this sweet familiarity with a fatigue which he loves, to which he abandons himself and which nevertheless he himself directs) is given as a way of appropriating the mountain, of suffering it to the end and being victor over it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1104

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows what it means for a physical state to be interpreted through a free project rather than given facticity.
• XREF: Directly foreshadows Beauvoir’s treatment of how bodily situation is taken up through freedom rather than suffered as raw fact. — connects to: Individual passions are surface expressions of one total fundamental project — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1147; The permanence of things is constituted by one’s own ongoing project. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1284; Fatigue becomes bearable or intolerable only through reflective consciousness conferring value — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1103

Broader Connections

• Individual passions are surface expressions of one total fundamental project #expands (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1147
• The permanence of things is constituted by one’s own ongoing project. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1284
• Fatigue becomes bearable or intolerable only through reflective consciousness conferring value #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1103