The Other’s existence gives rise to collective ownership of world-appropriation techniques.

Evidence

In the first place it is easy to see abstractly that we originally aim at possessing not so much the mode of being of an object as the actual being of this particular object. In fact it is as a concrete representative of being-in-itself that I desire to appropriate it; that is, to apprehend that ideally I am the foundation of its being in so far as it is a part of myself and on the other hand to apprehend that empirically the appropriated object is never valid in itself alone nor for its individual use. No particular appropriation has any meaning outside its indefinite extensions: the pen which I possess is the same as all other pens; it is the class of pens which I possess in it. … With all possession there is made the crystallizing synthesis which Stendhal has described for the one case of love. Each possessed object which raises itself on the foundation of the world, manifests the entire world, just as a beloved woman manifests the sky, the shore, the sea which surrounded her when she appeared. To appropriate this object is then to appropriate the world symbolically. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1381 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Others take and give the world; projects interlock with other projects; The for-itself historicizes the world by constituting others’ free acts as objective techniques.; The Other’s look proves a beyond-the-world realm irreducible to spatial relations (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The for-itself historicizes the world by constituting others’ free acts as objective techniques. #expands (0.85)
• Possession aims at appropriating being-in-itself and symbolically the whole world. #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1381
• The Other-as-object reinforces the world’s objectivity while the Other-as-look dissolves it #expands (0.80)
• Encountering another person makes one an object in their world #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 676
• Others constitute the situation that gives individual freedom its concrete content #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 453
• Others take and give the world; projects interlock with other projects #expands (0.75)
• The Other’s look proves a beyond-the-world realm irreducible to spatial relations #qualifies (0.75)
• Interpreting others presupposes shared rationality and a common world. #qualifies (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 420