Lack is not accidental to human reality but constitutes its original mode of being.
Evidence
Such is the origin of transcendence. Human reality is its own surpassing toward what it lacks; it surpasses itself toward the particular being which it would be if it were what it is. Human reality is not something which exists first in order afterwards to lack this or that; it exists first as lack and in immediate, synthetic connection with what it lacks. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 360
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines transcendence as the for-itself’s constitutive self-surpassing toward what it lacks — an ontological structure, not a goal-directedness.
- XREF: connects to: Possibility is a concrete property of already existing beings, not a subjective construct — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 378; Abstraction is the for-itself’s original mode of being, not a mental act — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 607; Nothingness is logically subsequent to being, not its opposite. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 205 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The possible is a lack constitutive of consciousness itself
#corroborates(0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 385 - Abstraction is the for-itself’s original mode of being, not a mental act
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 607 - Possibility is a concrete property of already existing beings, not a subjective construct
#complicates(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 378 - Nothingness is logically subsequent to being, not its opposite.
#complicates(0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 205