Negation without a future-directed engagement loses all meaning
Evidence
Every negation in fact which would not have beyond itself in the future the meaning of an engagement as a possibility which comes to it and toward which it flees itself, would lose all its significance as negation. … In so far as the for-itself denies itself in the future, the this concerning which it makes itself a negation is revealed as coming to itself from the future. The possibility that consciousness exists non-thetically as consciousness (of) being able not to not-be this is revealed as the potentiality of the this of being what it is. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 606
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines how the for-itself’s temporal structure grounds the potentiality of objects — permanence arrives at the ‘this’ from the future.
- XREF: connects to: Negation is the cement unifying spatial objects into Gestalt wholes; Expectation constitutes real absence while gratuitous negation stays merely abstract; Abstract quality is apprehended in the future mode, correlative with negation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 598 (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Negation is the cement unifying spatial objects into Gestalt wholes; Expectation constitutes real absence while gratuitous negation stays merely abstract; Abstract quality is apprehended in the future mode, correlative with negation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 598 (+4 more)