Being and nothingness : an essay on phenomenological ontology
by Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 (Author)
Summary
"First published in French in 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a... Full description
- Machine generated contents note: I.The idea of the phenomenon
- II.The phenomenon of being and the being of the phenomenon
- III.The prereflective cogito and the being of the percipere
- IV.The being of the percipi
- V.The ontological proof
- VI.Being in itself
- pt. ONE THE PROBLEM OF NOTHINGNESS
- ch. 1 The origin of negation
- I.Questioning
- II.Negations
- III.The dialectical conception of nothingness
- IV.The phenomenological conception of nothingness
- V.The origin of nothingness
- ch. 2 Bad faith
- I.Bad faith and lies
- II.Forms of bad faith
- III.The `faith' of bad faith
- pt. TWO BEING-FOR-ITSELF
- ch. 1 The immediate structures of the for-itself
- I.Self-presence
- II.The for-itself's facticity
- III.The for-itself and the being of value
- IV.The for-itself and the being of possibles
- V.My self and the circuit of ipseity
- ch. 2 Temporality
- I.Phenomenology of the three temporal dimensions
- II.The ontology of temporality
- Note continued: III.Original temporality and psychological temporality: reflection
- ch. 3 Transcendence
- I.Knowledge as a type of relation between the for-itself and the in-itself
- II.On determination as negation
- III.Quality and quantity, potentiality and equipmentality
- IV.World-time
- V.Knowledge
- pt. THREE BEING-FOR-THE-OTHER
- ch. 1 The Other's existence
- I.The problem
- II.The reef of solipsism
- III.Husserl, Hegel, Heidegger
- IV.The look
- ch. 2 The body
- I.The body as being-for-itself: facticity
- II.The body-for-the-Other
- III.The third ontological dimension of the body
- ch. 3 Concrete relations with the Other
- I.Our first attitude towards the Other: love, language, masochism
- II.The second attitude towards the Other: indifference, desire, hatred, sadism
- III.`Being-with' (Mitsein) and the `we'
- pt. FOUR TO HAVE, TO DO AND TO BE
- ch. 1 Being and doing: freedom
- I.The first condition of action is freedom
- Note continued: II.Freedom and facticity: the situation
- III.Freedom and responsibility
- ch. 2 To do and to have
- I.Existential psychoanalysis
- II.To do and to have: possession
- III.The revelation of being through qualities
- Conclusion
- I.In-itself and for-itself: some metaphysical observations
- II.Moral perspectives.