Consciousness transcends toward the meaning of being, not being itself

Evidence

Consciousness is the revealed-revelation of existents, and existents appear before consciousness on the foundation of their being. Nevertheless the primary characteristic of the being of an existent is never to reveal itself completely to consciousness. An existent can not be stripped of its being; being is the ever present foundation of the existent; it is everywhere in it and nowhere. There is no being which is not the being of a certain mode of being, none which can not be apprehended through the mode of being which manifests being and veils it at the same time. Consciousness can always pass beyond the existent, not toward its being, but toward the meaning of this being. That is why we call it ontic-ontological, since a fundamental characteristic of its transcendence is to transcend the ontic toward the ontological. The meaning of the being of the existent in so far as it reveals itself to consciousness is the phenomenon of being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 154

Categorization

• XREF: The ontic-ontological distinction (versus Heidegger’s analytic) is needed for the Beauvoir backdrop on transcendence. — connects to: Consciousness introduces differentiation, meaning, and plurality into undifferentiated Being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 40; The being of the perceived remains relative to consciousness yet demands independent examination.; Consciousness is necessarily directed at a being other than itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 151 (+18 more)
• DEFINE: Defines being as perpetually veiled foundation, and consciousness’s ontic-ontological structure.

Broader Connections

• Consciousness is necessarily directed at a being other than itself #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 151
• Consciousness is a being that is conscious of the nothingness of its own being. #complicates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 277
• Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being #qualifies (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897