Supreme value is the unconditional beyond of all surpassings

Evidence

Value is affected with the double character, which moralists have very inadequately explained, of both being unconditionally and not being. Qua value indeed, value has being, but this normative existent does not have to be precisely as reality. Its being is to be value; that is, not-to-be being. Thus the being of value qua value is the being of what does not have being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 367 (#expands, via linked claim)

In all cases of lack value is “the lacked;” it is not “the lacking.” Value is the self in so far as the self haunts the heart of the for-itself as that for which the for-itself is. The supreme value toward which consciousness at every instant surpasses itself by its very being is the absolute being of the self with its characteristics of identity, of purity, of permanence, etc., and as its own foundation. This is what enables us to conceive why value can simultaneously be and not be. It is as the meaning and the beyond of all surpassing; it is as the absent in-itself which haunts being-for-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 369 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Value is the absent in-itself that consciousness perpetually surpasses toward — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 369; Value’s being consists precisely in not having being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 367

Broader Connections

• Value’s being consists precisely in not having being #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 367
• Value is the absent in-itself that consciousness perpetually surpasses toward #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 369