being in-itself/for-itself
- being in-itself/for-itself
A contrast heralded in the phenomenology of
Husserl and
Heidegger, and central to
Sartre's work
Being and Nothingness . Being for-itself (
pour-soi ) is the mode of existence of consciousness, consisting in its own activity and purposive nature; being in-itself (
en-soi ) is the self-sufficient, lumpy, contingent being of ordinary things. The contrast bears some affinity to
Kant's distinction between the perspective of agency or freedom and that of awareness of the ordinary phenomenal world.
Philosophy dictionary.
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2011.
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