The Choice of an Identity

Being and Nothingness

This character-destiny thread follows how a person's identity is simultaneously chosen, situated, and assigned from outside.

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Bearing strength in each event

decreasing

Given Characteristics Given Characteristics from "Being and Nothingness". Given Characteristics Unchosen Conditions A person discovers a body, past, place, and social setting that were not freely selected.

Given Characteristics from "Being and Nothingness". Given Characteristics Unchosen Conditions A person discovers a body, past, place, and social setting that were not freely selected.

Given Characteristics Unchosen Conditions A person discovers a body, past, place, and social setting that were not freely selected. These conditions shape what can be done. No Fixed Essence The conditions do not by themselves determine who the person must become. Their meaning arises within a free project.

A Public Identity A Public Identity from "Being and Nothingness". A Public Identity Names from Others Race, nationality, occupation, and class can be assigned from outside and lived as limits.

A Public Identity from "Being and Nothingness". A Public Identity Names from Others Race, nationality, occupation, and class can be assigned from outside and lived as limits.

A Public Identity Names from Others Race, nationality, occupation, and class can be assigned from outside and lived as limits. They belong to the person's being-for-others. Alienation The person cannot experience those descriptions exactly as the Other does, even while recognizing their consequences.

Assuming the Given Assuming the Given from "Being and Nothingness". Assuming the Given Free Recovery A person may reject, accept, or reinterpret an assigned identity. Even refusal is a way of assuming the situation.

Assuming the Given from "Being and Nothingness". Assuming the Given Free Recovery A person may reject, accept, or reinterpret an assigned identity. Even refusal is a way of assuming the situation.

Assuming the Given Free Recovery A person may reject, accept, or reinterpret an assigned identity. Even refusal is a way of assuming the situation. Limits Remain The choice does not erase the external fact. The person can choose a way of being a condition, not whether the condition was imposed.

Identity as a Project Identity as a Project from "Being and Nothingness". Identity as a Project Concrete Conduct The person becomes a member of a class, nation, or family through particular practices and relations.

Identity as a Project from "Being and Nothingness". Identity as a Project Concrete Conduct The person becomes a member of a class, nation, or family through particular practices and relations.

Identity as a Project Concrete Conduct The person becomes a member of a class, nation, or family through particular practices and relations. Abstract labels are realized in conduct. Responsibility The individual's project gives these structures their lived meaning while remaining shaped by a shared world.

No Final Self-Portrait No Final Self-Portrait from "Being and Nothingness". No Final Self-Portrait Beyond the Description No public label or private decision exhausts the person.

No Final Self-Portrait from "Being and Nothingness". No Final Self-Portrait Beyond the Description No public label or private decision exhausts the person.

No Final Self-Portrait Beyond the Description No public label or private decision exhausts the person. The self remains a project that can reinterpret the meaning of its conditions. Destiny The person is responsible for assuming an identity but never fully controls how others preserve it.

Part Four, Chapter One, discussion of facticity and situation

Part Four, Chapter One, discussion of nationality and class

Part Four, Chapter One, discussion of unrealizables

Part Four, Chapter One, discussion of techniques and social groups

Part Four, Chapter One, concluding discussion of situation