ABSTRACT
This claim relates to particular projects aimed at this or that specific end, but embraces more profoundly the idea that all our projects “are united in the global project which we are” (BN1: 481; BN2: 503). The free project in this sense points to the notion of the fundamental project, understood as my being, what I make myself to be in choosing the person I am in what I do. Following his account of consciousness and freedom earlier in Being and Nothingness, Sartre devotes the concluding part 4 of the work to a study of action and the relations of doing (and having) to being. This leads to the claim that “each human reality is at the same time a direct project to metamorphose its own for-itself into an in-itself-for-itself and a project of the appropriation of the world as a totality of being-in-itself ” (BN1: 615; BN2: 636). How does he arrive at this conclusion?
