In absorbed action there is no self inhabiting consciousness to qualify the acts
Evidence
Let us imagine that moved by jealousy, curiosity, or vice I have just glued my ear to the door and looked through a keyhole. I am alone and on the level of a non-thetic self-consciousness. This means first of all that there is no self to inhabit my consciousness, nothing therefore to which I can refer my acts in order to qualify them. They are in no way known; I am my acts and hence they carry in themselves their whole justification. I am a pure consciousness of things, and things, caught up in the circuit of my selfness, offer to me their potentialities as the proof of my non-thetic consciousness (of) my own possibilities. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 724
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘non-thetic self-consciousness’ means concretely: absorbed action with no reflective self.
- XREF: Directly echoes the everyday absorbed coping Heidegger describes in Division I of Being and Time — the ready-to-hand mode. — connects to: An act must be self-present as operative intention to unify consciousness; Consciousness of self is identical with consciousness of the object, not a separate act — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 134; Practical consciousness is non-reflective and discloses the world as instrumentality (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Consciousness of self is identical with consciousness of the object, not a separate act
#corroborates(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 134 - An act must be self-present as operative intention to unify consciousness
#contradicts(0.80) - Practical consciousness is non-reflective and discloses the world as instrumentality
#corroborates(0.80) - Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing
#contradicts(0.75)