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- noun philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology The self-contained and fully realized
being orexistence of objects.
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Examples
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During one interview, the director of the orangutan habitat meditates at length on Nénette's virtuosity in being "drained by the curiosity of others"; assessing that she lives in a state of being which is "in the moment fully" - a trifecta synthesis of Sartre's being-for-itself and being-in-itself and being-for-others?
Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011
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During one interview, the director of the orangutan habitat meditates at length on Nénette's virtuosity in being "drained by the curiosity of others"; assessing that she lives in a state of being which is "in the moment fully" - a trifecta synthesis of Sartre's being-for-itself and being-in-itself and being-for-others?
Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011
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The "us" is objectified by an Other and hence has the ontological status of being-in-itself but the collective subject or "we," he insists, is simply a psychological experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004
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The principle of identity holds only for being-in-itself.
Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004
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So for those who can't quite parse the difference between being-in-itself and being-for-itself, Sartre would communicate in parables.
Everything2 New Writeups Glowing Fish 2010
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There we find the superposition of essay and fiction in Mosca's work: responding to the need to offer ourselves our own story, of grabbing hold of our subalternity as prime material, through which we can get closer to our truth - our being-in-itself, Sartre would say -, attainable only through "liberational" writing and reading.
Venepoetics 2009
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In pour-soi [a being-for-itself; a consciousness] who is also an en-soi [a being-in-itself; a thing]: which is a contradiction in terms.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Ro Thorpe 2009
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-- how do you envision "being-in-itself"? seems a rather amorphous thing to call
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"sacred." of course, most people, although not I, envision "being-in-itself" as God -- with their religion painting the picture.
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