The upsurge of freedom and the revelation of the given are simultaneous and inseparable

Evidence

It is by its very surpassing of the given toward its ends that freedom causes the given to exist as this given here (previously there was neither this nor that nor here) and the given thus designated is not formed in any way whatsoever; it is a brute existent, assumed in order to be surpassed. But at the same time that freedom is a surpassing of this given, it chooses itself as this surpassing of the given. Freedom is not just any kind of surpassing of any kind of given. By assuming the brute given and be conferring meaning on it, freedom has suddenly chosen itself; its end is exactly to change this given, just as the given appears as this given in the light of the end chosen. Thus the upsurge of freedom is the crystallization of an end across a given and the revelation of a given in the light of an end; these two structures are simultaneous and inseparable. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1203

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core structure of the situation: end-surpassing and given-revelation as one simultaneous act, not two.
• XREF: This two-sided simultaneity is the systematic foundation Beauvoir builds her ethics on in The Ethics of Ambiguity. — connects to: Situation is the fused double determination of freedom and facticity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 725; Freedom is the original upsurge that posits one’s ultimate ends.; Freedom and facticity are mutually condition each other’s existence. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1176 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom and situation are mutually constituting rather than opposites #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1164