Knowing is realizing being through an inner negating transcendence

Evidence

Consciousness is the revealed-revelation of existents, and existents appear before consciousness on the foundation of their being. Nevertheless the primary characteristic of the being of an existent is never to reveal itself completely to consciousness. An existent can not be stripped of its being; being is the ever present foundation of the existent; it is everywhere in it and nowhere. There is no being which is not the being of a certain mode of being, none which can not be apprehended through the mode of being which manifests being and veils it at the same time. Consciousness can always pass beyond the existent, not toward its being, but toward the meaning of this being. That is why we call it ontic-ontological, since a fundamental characteristic of its transcendence is to transcend the ontic toward the ontological. The meaning of the being of the existent in so far as it reveals itself to consciousness is the phenomenon of being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 154 (#expands, via linked claim)

Let us look more closely at this dimension of being. We said that consciousness is the knowing being in his capacity as being and not as being known. This means that we must abandon the primacy of knowledge if we wish to establish that knowledge. Of course consciousness can know and know itself. But it is in itself something other than a knowledge turned back upon itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 128 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Consciousness transcends toward the meaning of being, not being itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 154; Knowing aims to coincide with being yet is structured as not being it; Knowledge of being presupposes the knower’s separation from the being known — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 653 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Knowing aims to coincide with being yet is structured as not being it #expands (0.90)
• Consciousness transcends toward the meaning of being, not being itself #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 154
• Consciousness is being, not merely self-knowledge, so knowledge’s primacy must be abandoned #contradicts (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 128
• Knowledge of being presupposes the knower’s separation from the being known #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 653
• Knowing is the very being of the for-itself, not a relation #contradicts (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 572
• Self-awareness lifts the I above itself while it remains itself #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 814
• Being and non-being relate only through an internal nihilating bond #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 429
• Consciousness introduces differentiation, meaning, and plurality into undifferentiated Being #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 40
• Divine self-presence is opened up by an internal distance rather than merely broken #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858
• Causes require nihilation and transcendence toward a not-yet-existing potentiality #expands (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1089