Sartre is responding to the criticism that one can never truly be free because of the limitations placed upon an individual, referred to as facticities. While it is that Sartre accepts that “Far from being able to modify our situation at our whim, we seem to be unable to change ourselves. I am not "free" either to escape the lot of my class, of my nation, of my family” (Sartre, 2003, p. 503). Sartre proceeds to argue that one is free due to one's constant ability to choose our projects in
Sartre is responding to the criticism that one can never truly be free because of the limitations placed upon an individual, referred to as facticities. While it is that Sartre accepts that “Far from being able to modify our situation at our whim, we seem to be unable to change ourselves. I am not "free" either to escape the lot of my class, of my nation, of my family” (Sartre, 2003, p. 503). Sartre proceeds to argue that one is free due to one's constant ability to choose our projects in