Abstract quality is apprehended in the future mode, correlative with negation
Evidence
Whatever our perception may be, as the original contact with being, the abstract is always there but to-come; I apprehend it in the future with my future. It is correlative with the peculiar possibility of my present concrete negation as the possibility of being no more than this negation. The abstract is the meaning of this in so far as it reveals itself in the future across my possibility of fixing in in-itself the negation which I have to be. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 598
Categorization
- XREF: Negation and future-temporality of the For-itself — connects to the systematic backdrop for Beauvoir. — connects to: Quality reveals being only to a nothingness that negates it; Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation; Abstract qualities are future possibilities the For-itself has to be (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Quality reveals being only to a nothingness that negates it; Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation; Abstract qualities are future possibilities the For-itself has to be (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation
#corroborates(0.92) - Negation is constituted as ekstatic through its relation to the future
#expands(0.88) - Abstract qualities are future possibilities the For-itself has to be
#expands(0.85) - The for-itself’s negation of being has a future-extending ekstatic dimension
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 604 - Negation without a future-directed engagement loses all meaning
#corroborates(0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 606 - Negation’s origin determines whether nothingness is subjective or real
#qualifies(0.75)