The for-itself’s negation of being has a future-extending ekstatic dimension

Evidence

While we have had to proceed in this way for the sake of clarity in exposition, we should not thereby conclude that being is revealed to a being which would be first presence in order afterwards to constitute itself a future. But being-in-itself is revealed to a being which arises as about-to-come to itself. This means that the negation which the for-itself makes itself be in the presence of being has an ekstatic dimension of the future; it is in so far as I am not what I am (an ekstatic relation to my own possibilities) that I have to not-be being-in-itself as the revealing realization of the this. That means that I am presence to the “this” in the incompleteness of a totality detotalized. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 604

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that presence-to-the-this is grounded in the ekstatic future dimension of the for-itself, not in a punctual Cartesian instant.
• XREF: The ‘totality detotalized’ and ekstatic future directly prefigure Beauvoir’s ethics of becoming. — connects to: The self I am depends on a future self it cannot determine — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 239; Human reality consists of two ekstases, one into being and one into non-being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 261; Negation arises in consciousness as the nihilation of another’s projected possibility. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 277 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Abstract essence arrives from the future as the meaning of present negation #expands (0.95)
• The For-itself’s being consists in internal negation rather than self-coincidence #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 445
• Consciousness transcends toward the meaning of being, not being itself #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 154
• Nothingness grounds negation by being itself a negation, not an empty void #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 215
• Transcendental imagination holds being and non-being in co-implication as relative non-being #complicates (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 897