Being is self-sufficient and rejects interaction, unlike every question.

Evidence

(But if we tried to approach the one obvious fact about Being, we wou Id arrive at the expedient point ofview that no questioning is possible-because Being cannot bear having any interaction attached to it. Being is self-sufficient, whereas every question is interactive.) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 812

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Being-versus-Question opposition that grounds the Relation/identity distinction.
• XREF: connects to: Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 346; Being-in-itself is so full of itself it cannot reflect or affirm. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 162; The self is bound to others and the world, not separate or controllable — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 477 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Being-in-itself is so full of itself it cannot reflect or affirm. #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 162
• Being-in-itself can found its nothingness but never its being #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 346
• The human is the unique entity whose Being includes questioning Being itself. #expands (0.85)
• The self is bound to others and the world, not separate or controllable #contradicts (0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 477