Historization makes an existent gain a history by concrete involvement in an actual world.
Evidence
I am my past and if I were not, my past would not exist any longer either for me or for anybody. It would no longer have any relation with the present. That certainly does not mean that it would not be but only that its being would be undiscoverable. I am the one by whom my past arrives in this world. But it must be understood that I do not give being to it. In other words it does not exist as “my” representation. It is not because I “represent” my past that it exists. But it is because I am my past that it enters into the world, and it is in terms of its being-in-the-world that I can by applying a particular psychological process represent it to myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 426 (
#expands, via linked claim)
- To avoid a misunderstanding: I do not believe that the Frage nach dem Sein and similar questions are or ought to be an existential concern. What was meaningful at the origins of philosophic thought may well have become meaningless at its end, and the loss of meaning may not be due to the incapacity to think. The history of mankind has given definite answers to the “question of Being,” and has given them in very concrete terms, which have proved their efficacy. The technological universe is one of them. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 540 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The living for-itself is what brings its past into being-in-the-world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 426; Human history answers the question of Being in concrete practical terms — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 540
Broader Connections
- The living for-itself is what brings its past into being-in-the-world.
#expands(0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 426 - Human history answers the question of Being in concrete practical terms
#corroborates(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 540