Values are inherited from the social world, not invented from nothing

Evidence

To say that uncoerced, free actions disclose values does not mean that individuals simply make up or invent values by fi at or out of nothing. Born into a social world permeated with values, values are not straightforwardly created; rather, they are, in a certain sense, inherited (EA, 35-42; MA, 51-61). However, while antecedent values condition human existence, antecedent values do not necessitate that or how these inherited values are assumed, interpreted, or applied. Anticipatory values can be accepted, rejected, modifi ed, hidden Freedom, Intersubjectivity, and Normative Justifi cation 87 from, or remained oblivious to. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 213

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the meaning of ‘freedom discloses values’ — it is interpretive assumption of inherited values, not creation ex nihilo.
• XREF: Echoes the social-embeddedness of freedom in Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity as against pure Sartrean voluntarism — a key influence-direction data point for this book. — connects to: The spirit of seriousness treats values as absolute rather than made by human freedom — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1520; Values are invented by people since there is no a priori meaning — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 32; Values are created absolutely by human attachment, not discovered (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Values are created absolutely by human attachment, not discovered #contradicts (0.90)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure #contradicts (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514
• Society provides the categories of thought, not the content of taxonomies #expands (0.72)