Value arises from the for-itself’s constitutive lack

Evidence

Ontology has revealed to us, in fact, the origin and the nature of value; we have seen that value is the lack in relation to which the for-itself determines its being as a lack. By the very fact that the for-itself exists, as we have seen, value arises to haunt its being-for-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1445

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines value as lack — the for-itself haunted by what it is not. Core definitional link in the system.
• XREF: Connects to Beauvoir’s account of the ambiguous, stranding the for-itself between being and nothingness. — connects to: A value grounded in being would destroy value and enslave the will; Value is intuited only as a beyond of concrete acts; Lack presupposes a totality that the existing and the lacking jointly compose (+14 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1445

Broader Connections

• Totality of being arises only through the detotalized for-itself #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 585
• Value is the absent in-itself that consciousness perpetually surpasses toward #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 369
• The For-itself is not a substance but the nihilation of a particular In-itself #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1432
• Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250
• The for-itself depends on the in-itself through an internal relation #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1437
• Economic value arises only through sacrifice and exchange #expands (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 245