Willed and spontaneous feelings are identical because feelings are self-choices
Evidence
As will-to-be, human beings deny their freedom in order to make of themselves objects. Th us, this attitude is closely related to the naïve realistic attitude that says that being and truth are always pre-given; this implies that we are obliged to turn ourselves into purely objective beings. Th e subjectivity that inserts itself inside a scheme of pure objective truth creates a world of men-objects. To this philosophy, the will-to-be is nothing more than the will-to-be-as-onealready-is. Does not a will that satisfi es itself with taking upon itself being as it is prove its own uselessness? It certainly does not add anything to being, which already acts in a world full of richness. Rather, by causing subjectivity’s adherence to this belief, it creates the conditions for subjectivity’s self-negation, for its selfdevalorization (here, we must be careful to emphasize that self-negation is an activity, and not the result of passivity: self-negation is always the negation of the self by the self ). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 435 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Desire is a distinctive mode of self-choice, not a mere directed longing; Choosing a situation and choosing one’s self are inseparable daily acts; Self-negation is an active choice, not a passive outcome — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 435 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Self-negation is an active choice, not a passive outcome
#corroborates(0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 435 - Chosen inferiority is not contentment but assumed rebellion and despair
#expands(0.73) - Choosing a situation and choosing one’s self are inseparable daily acts
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