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Posted: 26 Apr 2020

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Being and Nothingness •
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Jean-Paul Sartre •

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 Dinesh
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Meaning is nothing other than a fixed movement of transcendence. A body is a body as this mass of flesh which it ‘is’ is defined by the table which the body looks at, the chair in which it sits the pavement on which it walks, etc. but to proceed further, there could be no question of exhausting the meanings which constitute the body -- by means of reference to concerted actions, to the rational utilization of instrumental-complexes. The body is the totality of meaningful relations to the world. In this sense it is defined also by reference to the air which it breathes, to the water which it drinks, to the food it eats. The body in fact could not appear without sustaining meaningful relation with the totality of what is. Like ‘action, life’ is a transcended transcendence [Additionally if the other is viewed strictly as an object, much like any other object, then the other is, for the for-itself, a transcendence-transcended. When the for-itself grasps the other in the others world, and grasps the subjectivity that the other has, it is referred to as transcending-transcendence.] and a meaning. There is no difference in nature between action and life conceived as a totality. Life represents the ensemble of meanings which are transcended toward objects which are not posited as ‘theises’ on the ground of the world. . . . . Page 452
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