Knowledge is not a property but is the ekstatic being of the For-itself

Evidence

We shall grant to idealism that the being of the For-itself is knoweldge of being, but we must add that this knowledge has being. The identity of the being of the For-itself and of knowledge does not come from the fact that knowledge is the measure of being but from the fact that the For-itself makes known to itself what it is, through the in-itself; that is, from the fact that in its being it is a relation to being. Knowledge is nothing other than the presence of being to the For-itself, and the For-itself is only the nothing which realizes that presence. Thus knowledge is by nature ekstatic being, and because of that fact it is confused with the ekstatic being of the For-itself. The For-itself does not exist in order subsequently to know; neither can we say that it exists only in so far as it knows or is known, for this would be to make being vanish into an infinity regulated by particular bits of knowledge. Knowing is an absolute and primitive event; it is the absolute upsurge of the For-itself in the midst of being and beyond being, in terms of the being which it is not and as the negation of that being and a self nihilation. In a word, by a radical reversal of the idealist position, knowledge is reabsorbed in being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 651

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines knowledge as ekstatic being — the For-itself’s presence to being, neither attribute nor function nor accident.
• XREF: Directly sets up Beauvoir’s ethics: knowledge reabsorbed into being is the groundwork for her account of freedom’s encounter with the world. — connects to: Knowing is the very being of the for-itself, not a relation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 572; Knowledge is a form of appropriation by the for-itself; Knowing aims to coincide with being yet is structured as not being it (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The For-itself is not a substance but the nihilation of a particular In-itself #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1432
• Knowing aims to coincide with being yet is structured as not being it #expands (0.78)
• Knowledge of being presupposes the knower’s separation from the being known #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 653
• Knowledge is a form of appropriation by the for-itself #corroborates (0.72)
• Consciousness is being, not merely self-knowledge, so knowledge’s primacy must be abandoned #contradicts (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 128