The will can reshape details but never its originating fundamental project
Evidence
It amounts to saying that by means of the will, we can construct ourselves entirely, but that the will which presides over this construction finds its meaning in the original project which it can appear to deny, that consequently this construction has a function wholly different from that which it advertises, and that finally it can reach only details of structures and will never modify the original project from which it has issued any more than the consequences of a theorem can turn back against it and change it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1138
Categorization
- DEFINE: Pinpoints the precise sense in which voluntary decisions are efficacious yet subordinate to the original project.
- XREF: connects to: Fundamental projects must be freely and continuously re-chosen rather than settled once; An individual justifies himself only through a future-oriented project, never through present facticity; The body is a situation shaping but never determining projects — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 105 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- An individual justifies himself only through a future-oriented project, never through present facticity
#expands(0.85) - The will’s bad faith does not oppose but expresses the fundamental project
#expands(0.85) - The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453 - Some secondary possibles vary freely without altering fundamental project
#qualifies(0.85) - Fundamental projects must be freely and continuously re-chosen rather than settled once
#qualifies(0.82) - The body is a situation shaping but never determining projects
#expands(0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 105 - Scholarly critique stays docile when it revises detail without questioning foundations
#responds-to(0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 338 - Critical work advances dialogically and never reaches stable theoretical ground.
#complicates(0.70)