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Complete Definition of "being-for-itself"

English

Noun
en-noun|-

  1. The nihilation of being-in-itself
  2. Consciousness conceived as a lack of being, a desire for being, a relation to being.
  3. The origin of negation and destruction.

See also
being-for-others
being-in-itself
facticity
transcendence

References
Taken from:
The Hazel Barnes translation of Being and Nothingness. Key to special Terminology Co. 1984 Philosophical Library, Inc.

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