Temporality is the necessary horizon for the for-itself’s transcendence

Evidence

Temporality is not a universal time containing all beings and in particular human realities. Neither is it a law of development which is imposed on being from without. Nor is it being. But it is the intra-structure of the being which is its own nihilation—that is, the mode of being peculiar to being-for-itself. The For-itself is the being which has to be its being in the diasporatic form of Temporality. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 485 (#expands, via linked claim)

Temporality. Subjective process whereby the For-itself continuously lives its project of nihilating the In-itself. Through temporality the For-itself sets up its own measure for the duration and self-identity of things. Time is not in things but flows over them. The For-itself as what it has been (Past) is a flight (Present) toward what it projects to be (Future). — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1524 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 485; Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1524; Temporality cannot be derived from atemporal being or imposed upon it (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 485
• Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1524
• Temporality cannot be derived from atemporal being or imposed upon it #corroborates (0.85)
• Reflection reveals temporality as the historicity of the for-itself #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 521
• Causes require nihilation and transcendence toward a not-yet-existing potentiality #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1089