A value grounded in being would destroy value and enslave the will

Evidence

Value is affected with the double character, which moralists have very inadequately explained, of both being unconditionally and not being. Qua value indeed, value has being, but this normative existent does not have to be precisely as reality. Its being is to be value; that is, not-to-be being. Thus the being of value qua value is the being of what does not have being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 367 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Ontology has revealed to us, in fact, the origin and the nature of value; we have seen that value is the lack in relation to which the for-itself determines its being as a lack. By the very fact that the for-itself exists, as we have seen, value arises to haunt its being-for-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1445 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Value arises from the for-itself’s constitutive lack — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1445; Value’s being consists precisely in not having being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 367; Value is intuited only as a beyond of concrete acts (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Value’s being consists precisely in not having being #corroborates (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 367
• Value arises from the for-itself’s constitutive lack #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1445