Without the for-itself there is no world, only undifferentiated being.
Evidence
World. The whole of non-conscious Being as it appears to the For-itself and is organized by the For-itself in “instrumental complexes.” Because of its facticity the For-itself is inescapably engaged in the world. Yet strictly speaking, without the For-itself, there would be not a world but only an undifferentiated plenitude of Being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1530
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines world as for-itself-organized instrumental complexes, not merely a container of being.
- XREF: The claim that facticity inescapably engages the for-itself in the world prefigures Beauvoir’s situated freedom. — connects to: A single nihilation of Being suffices to constitute the entire world. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 43; The for-itself is only the emptiness where the in-itself detaches — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 576; The for-itself is a relation to the world, not a separate entity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 831 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The for-itself is only the emptiness where the in-itself detaches
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 576 - Nothingness is expelled from being yet gives the world its outlines
#corroborates(0.82) - The for-itself is a relation to the world, not a separate entity
#expands(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 831