Only human reality brings the future into the world, not being-in-itself
Evidence
The project of the For-itself toward the future which it is is a project toward the In-itself. In this sense the For-itself has to be its future because it can be the foundation of what it is only before itself and beyond being. It is the very nature of the For-itself that it must be “an always future hollow.” For this reason it will never have become, in the Present, what it had to be, in the Future. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The in-itself is pure actuality; possibility enters the world only through human reality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 379; The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 453; The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being. (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Only a being whose being is in question for itself can have a Future
#corroborates(0.90) - The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being.
#expands(0.85) - The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches
#corroborates(0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453 - Only humans consciously experience the world’s complexity and the need to select an environment.
#corroborates(0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 102