The serious man submits his freedom to supposedly unconditioned absolute ends

Evidence

The serious man gets rid of his freedom by claiming to subordinate it to values which would be unconditioned. He imagines that the accession to these values likewise permanently confers value upon himself. Shielded with “rights,” he fulfills himself as a being who is escaping from the stress of existence. The serious is not defined by the nature of the ends pursued. A frivolous lady of fashion can have this mentality of the serious as well as an engineer. There is the serious from the moment that freedom denies itself to the advantage of ends which one claims are absolute. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 43

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the serious man typology by its formal structure (freedom denied to absolute-seeming ends), not by which ends are pursued.
• XREF: connects to: Man is condemned to be free because he creates neither himself nor his values. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 13