The Facticity of Freedom | Sartre | Being & Nothingness

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Doing: Freedom as nothing. No essence but finds all essences through possibilities. No limits to freedom except condemned to be free. Ends - common purpose Motives - subjective desire Causes - circumstances (All interlinked) Freedom is not random, actions are linked and unitary. But actions begin and end within an instant. True change needs a transformative change to the project. Instant can threaten to upend out livesm

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Freedom and facticity: Freedom of choosing to acts (not focussed on outcome). Not free to escape family class nation etc. We obviously have physical limitations but we can pursue freedoms that are not yet actualised. Master and slave are radically free in that they can make choices (no guarantee for accomplishments). The given: in-itself. Situations. (For itself attempting to meet the in itself). Like a mountain (given) and then wanting to climb it(situation) because only experience mountain once climbing it Place - spatial order, thises. Place. Place as given fact but also relation. Place gains meaning through freedom. Past - future conceived only in the past. Given past to pursue future goals. Significance of past through choices. Past as active participant or even become ancient historic relic. Environment - tools, givens. Ability to change that environment too. Others - being for others 1) instruments already meaningful before me/skills/walk/speak/infused in them already. Speech - language as a tool 2) given a meaning, collective identities. Made concrete to others, they are unrealisable, we are free to interpret and assume these identities. 3) gaze, alienation. Object in eyes of other. Comes up to limit. Essential characteristic. 4) death - nihiliation (not a personal event). Subjective death individualised (and that's not unique to other things like love). Death not freely determined. Doesn't give life meaning, an inevitable. The living defines the dead (becomes subject to the other). Not an obstacle because do not meet death. Possibilities not there when death there

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Freedom and responsibiliyty: A way of engaging with limitations. Being in situation and potential to go beyond it. Choices. Illuminates constraints. Heroic. Inseparable from historical context. Opportunities to shape our being without remorse or anguish of responsibility (without bad faith is the aim)

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