True freedom collapses the separation between means and ends

Evidence

This requires that each action be considered as a finished form whose different moments, instead of fleeing toward the future in order to find there their justification, reflect and confirm one another so well that there is no longer a sharp separation between present and future, between means and ends. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 124

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is the payoff doctrine of the chapter — how a free act unifies its moments so means and ends cease to be separable — dense enough to sit with.
• XREF: connects to: An end must be both accessible and separated from us by real existents — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1153; Freedom is meaningful only as engaged by free choice of ends; Liberalism’s founding assembly split over ends versus means of freedom — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 278 (+1 more)