The sub-man resists the projects of free men rather than enlarging the human realm.

Evidence

That is why every man who wills himself free within a human world fashioned by free men will be so disgusted by the sub-men. Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity, and the sub-man feels only the facticity of his existence. Instead of aggrandizing the reign of the human, he opposes his inert resistance to the projects of other men. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 41

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Relevant to tracking whether willing your freedom requires willing others’: Beauvoir ties freedom to a shared human world and contrasts it with the sub-man’s inert resistance.

Related

• Moral judgments require presupposing human freedom in oneself and others. (similarity 0.84)
• The sub-man refuses the risks and tensions of existing as a lack. (similarity 0.82)
• Legitimate causes can require fighting against other valid causes (similarity 0.81)
• Denying that one freely chooses ends makes one enslaved to those ends (similarity 0.80)
• Existentialist ethics condemns tyranny because self-justification requires other men (similarity 0.80)
• Individual freedom is achieved only through the freedom of others (similarity 0.80)
• Every action for humanity is also an action against some humans (similarity 0.79)
• The Other’s freedom becomes a limit only through one’s own free choice. (similarity 0.78)
• The passionate man’s project depopulates the world and leaves him unfulfilled (similarity 0.78)
• What befalls a person through others demands a side-taking that natural events do not (similarity 0.78)