Human reality is constituted as the unique foundation of nothingness within being.

Evidence

Since nothingness is nothingness of being, it can come to being only through being itself. Of course it comes to being through a particular being, which is human reality. But this being is constituted as human reality inasmuch as this being is nothing but the original project of its own nothingness. Human reality is being in so far as within its being and for its being it is the unique foundation of nothingness at the heart of being. β€” Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 336

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines human reality itself as the project of founding nothingness within being.
  • XREF: connects to: Lack is the deepest internal negation and appears only with human reality. β€” Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 352; Nothingness is an act of being putting itself into question, unique to consciousness. β€” Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 336; Human reality arises as a lack of an impossible self-totality β€” Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 362 (+3 more)

Broader Connections