Rational reflection is always weaker than the illusions it dispels
Evidence
The goal in short is to overtake that being which flees itself while being what it is in the mode of not-being and which flows on while being its own flow, which escapes between its own fingers; the goal is to make of it a given, a given which finally is what it is; the problem is to gather together in the unity of one regard this unachieved totality which is unachieved only because it is to itself its own non-achievement, to escape from the sphere of the perpetual reference which has to be a reference to itself, and-precisely because it has escaped from the chains of this reference-to make it be as a seen reference-that is, as a reference which is what it is. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Reflection aims impossibly to unify the for-itself with itself into a totality; Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 511; Reflection splits consciousness in a split never completed
Broader Connections
- Reflection aims impossibly to unify the for-itself with itself into a totality
#expands(0.82) - Reflection aims to make the self-coincident being that consciousness can never simply be
#expands(0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 511 - Reflection splits consciousness in a split never completed
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