Human activities structurally embed negativity without any explicit negative judgment

Evidence

There is an infinite number of realities which are not only objects of judgment, but which are experienced, opposed, feared, etc., by the human being and which in their inner structure are inhabited by negation, as by a necessary condition of their existence. We shall call them négatités. … Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being—like a worm. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 219 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Negation structures many everyday realities, not just judgments — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 219; Negativity and pain constitute genuinely human experience — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 75; Hegelian negativity is a preserving virtual mode distinct from the merely non-existent — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 480

Broader Connections

• Negation structures many everyday realities, not just judgments #expands (0.93) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 219