The existentialist Jean Paul Sartre's framework of freedom is describes the "confined woman"" conveyed by Iris Marion Young as being radically free. Iris Marion Young would also agree that Sartre's description of freedom would still hold, but since culture is inherently biased against the idea of an equal physically capable woman, women are not radically free, as Sartre would argue. However, Sartre's reasoning of freedom and Iris Marion Young's reasoning of a woman's lack of confidence stemming from doubt of her physical capacity, are both fundamentally convincing and compatible with each other. .
Jean Paul Sartre's thesis that humans are radically free starts of by his argument that existence precedes essence. Sartre argues that objects that like the pots crafted by an artisan have an "essence ", they are bounded by the nature of the essence, and thus are not free. Similarly, if there was a God or a creator that gave us our essence we would not be able to be free. Sartre synthesizes his points with by describing a duality of existence in the world which distills down to two types of qualifications: objects or beings-in-itself and conscious beings or beings-for-itself. The first is where essence predetermines the nature of the object and thus it cannot be break free of certain boundaries and be responsible for itself, while the second describes dynamic and conscious beings that are able make decisions and choices that absent of some fixed essence and thus are completely responsible for themselves. Humans, according to Sartre, are beings-for-itself since Sartre argues that our only non-freedom is chance that we exist in this world and since we exist we have to exert our freedom and thus we are "condemned to be free"." .
Sartre also argues that as humans condemned to be free, we must embrace our freedom and not act in "bad faith"" or try to objectify either others or ourselves.
