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