As Sartre points out in great detail, anguish, as the consciousness of freedom, is not something that human beings welcome; rather, we seek stability, identity, and adopt the language of freedom only when it suits us:
those acts are considered by me to be my free acts which exactly match the self I want others to take me to be.
We are “condemned to be free,” which means that we can never simply be who we are but are separated from ourselves by the nothingness of having perpetually to re-choose, or re-commit, ourselves to what we do.
Hmm....nice one Jean Paul, talk about gloomy - must read the rest of your work, your whole oeuvre
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