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Title: Being and Nothingness: An essay on phenomenological
ontology
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
Translator:
Hazel E. Barnes
Publisher:
Routledge Classics
Place:
London and New York
Year:
2003
Edition:
1st Routledge Classics
ISBN13:
978-0-415-27848-5
"Consciousness is consciousness of
something. This means that transcendence is the constitutive
structure of consciousness; that is, that consciousness arises
oriented towards a being which is not itself. This is what we
call the ontological proof." (Sartre 2003:17)
"What is present to me is what is
not me. We should note furthermore that this "non-being" is
implied a priori in
every theory of knowledge. It is impossible to construct the
notion of an object if we do not have originally a negative
relation designating the object as that which is not consciousness."
(Sartre 2003:196)
It can be said that because truths
relate to things outside of consciousness the non-being of
self relates to the being relating to truth. On the other hand
when a lie is told there is no being outside of self, which
represents the words of the lie. The being of the lie is only
in consciousness of the liar and listeners who heard the lie.
There is thus with regard to lies not the non-being and being,
which is inherent to knowledge.
6 June 2016
"At the origin of the problem of the
existence of others, there is a fundamental presupposition:
others are the Other,
that is the self which is not myself. Therefore
we grasp here a negation as the constitutive structure of the
being-of-others." (Sartre 2003:254) Later, Sartre argues
against the presupposition.
7 June 2016
Sartre prefers to emphasize
singularity of "the Other" with references to "him" (Sartre
2003:274-275). "In my own inmost depths I must find not reasons for believing
that the Other exists but the Other himself as not being me"
(Sartre 2003:275). Sartre seems to reject ideas about the
existence of "God" and "a God" and replace the ideas with
ideas about existence of "the Other" (Sartre 2003:256)
"The Other is in no way given to us
as an object. The objectivation of the Other would be the
collapse of his being-as-a-look." (Sartre 2003:292)
Sartre seems to wrote one thing,
then another. To quote him asks to be contradicted by another
quote.
"In fact in the structure which
expresses the experience 'I am ashamed of myself,' shame
supposes a me-as-object of the Other but also a selfness
which is ashamed and which is imperfectly expressed by the 'I'
of the formula. Thus shame is a unitary apprehension with
three dimensions: 'I am ashamed of myself before the Other.'
If any of these dimensions disappears, the shame disappears as
well. If, however, I conceive of the 'they' as a subject
before whom I am ashamed, as he can not become an object
without being scattered into a plurality of Others, if I posit
it as the absolute unity of the subject which can in no way
become an object, I thereby posit the eternity of my
being-as-object and so perpetuate my shame. This is shame
before God; that is, the recognition of my being-an-object
before a subject which can never become an object." (Sartre
2003:313)
13 July 2016
"Thus the best way to conceive of
the fundamental project of human reality is to say that man is
the being whose project is to be God. Whatever may be the
myths and rites of the religion considered, God is first
"sensible to the heart" of man as the one who identifies and
defines him in his ultimate and fundamental project. If man
possesses a pre-ontological comprehension of the being of God,
it is not the great wonders of nature not the power of society
which have conferred it upon him. God, value and supreme end
of transcendence, represents the permanent limit in terms of
which man makes known to himself what he is. To be man means
to reach towards being God. Or if you prefer, man
fundamentally is the desire to be God." (Sartre 2003:587)
19 July 2016
"The "stealing of thoughts" found in
the psychosis of influence gives us the best image of this
horrible condition." (Sartre 2003:631)
"Every human reality is a passion in
that it projects losing itself so as to found being and by the
same stroke to constitute the In-itself which escapes
contingency by being its own foundation, the Enscausa sui, which
religions call God. Thus the passion of man is the reverse of
that of Christ, for man loses himself as man in order that God
may be born. But the idea of God is contradictory and we lose
ourselves in vain. Man is a useless passion." (Sartre
2003:636)
"Doubtless the for-itself is a
nihilation, but as a nihilation it is; and it is in a priori unity with
the in-itself. Thus the Greeks were accustomed to distinguish
cosmic reality [actualities - own insert], which they called
Tò παν, from the totality constituted by this and by the
infinite void which surrounded it--a totality which they
called Tò ολον." (Sartre 2003:641)
παν was translated as "Pan" on 19
July 2016 by Google Translate. From: https://translate.google.co.za/
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el/en/παν
ολον was translated as "Around" on
19 July 2016 by Google Translate. From: https://translate.google.co.za/
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el/en/ολον
References
Sartre;
J-P. 2003. Being and
Nothingness: An essay on phenomenological ontology.
London: Routledge Classics.