BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
THE WOMAN DESTROYED
Freedom
"we feel vertigo or anguish before our recognition that nothing in our own pasts or discernible personality ensures our following any of our usual patterns of conduct."
freedom: fundamental fact of the human condition:
consciousness believes it is beyond freedom
Anguish
freedom does not mean freedom to do all things
anguish arises from knowing that you are responsible of the consequences of being free
temptation of falling into bad faith
the anxiety of freedom and the loneliness we experience in enduring freedom
given the limitlessness of freedom, we are responsible for everything we do
Bad Faith
"strategies in which
we deny our existential freedom and moral responsibility"
deceiving the self into thinking that we are not free due to the fear of the consequences of their choices and actions
Authenticity
Excusing ourselves from freedom due to the fear of consequences and responsibility
"to subject oneself to the authority of others"
consciousness of our freedom and take responsibility for all the consequences of our choices
Ethical Authenticity
Ontological freedom
Moral freedom
Power
man is condemned to be free
"we begin our lives as children who are dependent on others and embedded in a world already endowed with meaning [ready made values and established authorities]"
"..is different from moral freedom because it has to do with material and economic factors"
To be a human being is to be bound to our consciousness and our
materiality, the internal and external
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Freedom in all situations
To deny our ambiguity as ontologically free beings
and inability to recognise our dependence on other beings
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