Definitions
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- noun The third
ekstasis of thebeing-for-itself - noun A new dimension of being in which my
self exists outside as an object for others - noun The For-itself involves a perpetual conflict as each For-itself seeks to recover its own Being by directly or indirectly making an object out of The
other .
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Examples
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During one interview, the director of the orangutan habitat meditates at length on Nénette's virtuosity in being "drained by the curiosity of others"; assessing that she lives in a state of being which is "in the moment fully" - a trifecta synthesis of Sartre's being-for-itself and being-in-itself and being-for-others?
Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011
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During one interview, the director of the orangutan habitat meditates at length on Nénette's virtuosity in being "drained by the curiosity of others"; assessing that she lives in a state of being which is "in the moment fully" - a trifecta synthesis of Sartre's being-for-itself and being-in-itself and being-for-others?
Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011
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He discovered that there was no possibility of an existentialist ethics, each man condemned in his being-for-others to be in a constant state of conflict with the Other's freedom.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Lynsey Hanley 2010
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He discovered that there was no possibility of an existentialist ethics, each man condemned in his being-for-others to be in a constant state of conflict with the Other's freedom.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Lynsey Hanley 2010
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The existentialists in France got hold of it by way of Marx and Nietzsche and combined it with the important but difficult to understand insights on being that they picked up from Heidegger, and by the time Jean-Paul Sartre got through with it, The Other was an essential component to existentialist psychology which reveals to the self the self's own alienation as it discovers itself to be the Other for Other selves (this is what he means when he talks about "being-for-others").
Wet Asphalt 2009
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