nothingness

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conception in existentialism

  • Søren Kierkegaard
    In existentialism: Ontic structure of human existence

    …(as possibility) appears as the nothingness of Being, as the negation of every reality of fact. In a brief but famous work, Was ist Metaphysik? (1929; What Is Metaphysics?), Heidegger affirmed that “Human existence cannot have a relationship with being unless it remains in the midst of nothingness.” Rudolf Carnap,…

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viewed by Sartre

  • Jean-Paul Sartre
    In Jean-Paul Sartre: Early life and writings

    Sartre places human consciousness, or no-thingness (néant), in opposition to being, or thingness (être). Consciousness is not-matter and by the same token escapes all determinism. The message, with all the implications it contains, is a hopeful one; yet the incessant reminder that human endeavour is and remains useless makes the…

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