being-for-itself

English

Noun

being-for-itself (uncountable)

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-in-itself
• facticity
• transcendence

References

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