![]() ![]() In other words, things are what they are by their continuing to not be what they are not. It is a process of negation.Ī table continues to be a table, it is not an animal, an automobile, or an abstract formula. He explains that making these distinctions that make things appear as they do in our experience, also involves their continuing to not appear to be other things. Sartre believes consciousness involves making ongoing distinctions between things and yourself. What this means is that we are able to conjure up things that aren’t physically visible to us.įor example, you might see your bed because its right in front of you, but you can also not see a pyramid, you can imagine it being there, and thus your experience of the current room is altered and structured around the fact that there is not a pyramid in it. Our conscious existence introduces the idea of nothingness into the world. He begins with the origin of negation, the empty nothingness or opposite of being. The idea that individuals can always choose their own actions, even in situations which appear to enslave them. He speaks of consciousness, bad faith, the existence of “nothingness”, free will and authenticity. Sartre´s masterwork and major philosophical work of his life is Being and Nothingness, which became the core of Existentialism. ![]()
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