The for-itself historicizes the world by constituting others’ free acts as objective techniques.

Evidence

I am my past and if I were not, my past would not exist any longer either for me or for anybody. It would no longer have any relation with the present. That certainly does not mean that it would not be but only that its being would be undiscoverable. I am the one by whom my past arrives in this world. But it must be understood that I do not give being to it. In other words it does not exist as “my” representation. It is not because I “represent” my past that it exists. But it is because I am my past that it enters into the world, and it is in terms of its being-in-the-world that I can by applying a particular psychological process represent it to myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 426 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Other’s existence gives rise to collective ownership of world-appropriation techniques.; The living for-itself is what brings its past into being-in-the-world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 426

Broader Connections

• The living for-itself is what brings its past into being-in-the-world. #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 426