Reflection reveals temporality as the historicity of the for-itself

Evidence

Thus reflection is consciousness of the three ekstatic dimensions. It is a non-thetic consciousness (of) flow and a thetic consciousness of duration. For reflection the past and the present of the reflected-on are set in existence as quasi-outside in this sense: that they are not only held in the unity of a for-itself which exhausts their being in having to be it but also for a for-itself which is separated from them by a nothingness; they are for a for-itself which, while existing with them in the unity of a being, does not have to be their being. Through reflection also the flow reaches toward being as an “outside” outlined in immanence. … Reflection therefore apprehends temporality and reveals it as the unique and incomparable mode of being of a selfness—that is, as historicity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 521

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines historicity as the for-itself’s mode of being temporality through reflection.
• XREF: Historicity as the self-structured temporality connects to Beauvoir’s account of situated freedom and the ambiguity of temporal existence. — connects to: The three ekstases structure temporality, reflection, and the encounter with the Other — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 73; Temporality is the necessary horizon for the for-itself’s transcendence; Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 549 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802