Eating appropriates another being by destroying and assimilating it

Evidence

To eat is to appropriate by destruction; it is at the same time to be filled up with a certain being. And this being is given as a synthesis of temperature, density, and flavor proper. In a word this synthesis signifies a certain being; and when we eat, we do not limit ourselves to knowing certain qualities of this being through taste; by tasting them we appropriate them. Taste is assimilation; by the very act of biting the tooth reveals the density of a body which it is transforming into gastric contents. Thus the synthetic intuition of food is in itself an assimilative destruction. It reveals to me the being which I am going to make my flesh. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1414

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines taste/assimilation as an appropriative destruction — the for-itself annexing an in-itself being by transforming it into itself.
• XREF: Connects to Beauvoir’s later account of food, appetite, and the body’s relation to the world in the for-itself project; also resonates with how the for-itself is defined by what it negates and assimilates. — connects to: Assimilation requires the thing eaten already to be disposed toward its own destruction.; Generosity is a disguised mode of destruction and appropriation; Attempting to appropriate the Other destroys the incarnational freedom desire sought — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 989 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Generosity is a disguised mode of destruction and appropriation #expands (0.85)
• Assimilation requires the thing eaten already to be disposed toward its own destruction. #qualifies (0.82)
• Attempting to appropriate the Other destroys the incarnational freedom desire sought #complicates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 989