On Sartre's Relationship Between Freedom And Situation

Sartre believes that freedom means "absolute freedom" in terms of ontology. He emphasizes that freedom is the basic ground for human existence and prior condition for human's behavior. Sartre opposes determinism and finds its psychological foundation, on the basis of which he tries to remove the pre-assumption our human set for God's divinity and universal human nature to make human become an absolute freedom and totally independent self-making. However, Sartre still believes that "absolute freedom" is the result of choice instead of merely obtaining it. In the course of making choice, the human inevitably are restricted by the reality, which is place where human make choice in a free way-situation, that is-my position, my past, my surroundings, my neighbors and the death of me. The situation is an ambiguous phenomenon as a combined result of the contingency of self-being and self-making and all the situations accept the absolutism of freedom. On the contrary, all situations are the result of free choice: freedom give meaning to various situations and transform it into a concrete situation in which human make his choice and thus bear his responsibility. Therefore, in Sartre's view, freedom is the freedom in the situation while situation is the situation of free choice.