The body is the instrument that cannot be used like other instruments

Evidence

Either it is a thing among other things, or else it is that by which things are revealed to me. But it can not be both at the same time. Similarly I see my hand touching objects, but do not know it in its act of touching them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 826 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The body cannot be simultaneously an object and the subject that reveals the world — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 826; The being of everyday objects is veiled by their instrumental function; The body is revealed to us by instrumental things, not by itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 867 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The body cannot be simultaneously an object and the subject that reveals the world #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 826
• The body is revealed to us by instrumental things, not by itself #contradicts (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 867
• The body is a unity like hand-glass, not hand plus action #expands (0.80)
• Human means cannot be treated as pure instruments because man is himself an end. #corroborates (0.80)
• The being of everyday objects is veiled by their instrumental function #complicates (0.75)
• Sensation and action cannot be cleanly separated in bodily experience #expands (0.75)
• The body is primarily known as the Other’s body, not one’s own #expands (0.70)
• The body-for-the-Other constrains precisely because it can never be grasped #expands (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 916