Being-in-the-world means losing oneself in the instrumental chain of for-whats

Evidence

It is not then through unauthenticity that human reality loses itself in the world. For human reality, being-in-the-world means radically to lose oneself in the world through the very revelation which causes there to be a world—that is, to be referred without respite, without even the possibility of “a purpose for which” from instrument to instrument with no recourse save the reflective revolution. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 619

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: For Heidegger, Being-in-the-world means humans serve as a clearing where things reveal themselves — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 591; The for-itself is a relation to the world, not a separate entity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 831; The for-itself learns what it is by recovering its being through the world — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 605

Broader Connections

• The for-itself is a relation to the world, not a separate entity #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 831
• The for-itself learns what it is by recovering its being through the world #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 605
• For Heidegger, Being-in-the-world means humans serve as a clearing where things reveal themselves #complicates (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 591