Consciousness is being, not merely self-knowledge, so knowledge’s primacy must be abandoned

Evidence

Let us look more closely at this dimension of being. We said that consciousness is the knowing being in his capacity as being and not as being known. This means that we must abandon the primacy of knowledge if we wish to establish that knowledge. Of course consciousness can know and know itself. But it is in itself something other than a knowledge turned back upon itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 128

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the crucial definition of consciousness as transphenomenal being distinct from knowledge — the pivot for the entire for-itself analysis.
• XREF: This ‘abandon the primacy of knowledge’ move is the exact hinge Beauvoir inherits and reworks into the existentialist account of ambiguity and situation. — connects to: Establishing knowledge requires abandoning its primacy over being; Self-consciousness no longer functions as an adequate foundation for thought; Consciousness sustains its own being rather than being sustained by it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 304 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Establishing knowledge requires abandoning its primacy over being #corroborates (0.95)
• Absolute Knowledge arises from being’s own self-systematizing, not from the I #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1090
• Consciousness sustains its own being rather than being sustained by it. #complicates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 304
• Self-consciousness no longer functions as an adequate foundation for thought #expands (0.80)