The Past's Transformation into Destiny

Being and Nothingness

This thread follows the changing relation between lived action, the past, and the meaning imposed after death.

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Bearing strength in each event

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A Life in the Present A Life in the Present from "Being and Nothingness". A Life in the Present Becoming a Past A person is not a collection of completed states.

A Life in the Present from "Being and Nothingness". A Life in the Present Becoming a Past A person is not a collection of completed states.

A Life in the Present Becoming a Past A person is not a collection of completed states. The living for-itself must assume its past while remaining separated from it. Tension Every description of what the person is already belongs to a past that the present can still surpass.

The Former Student The Former Student from "Being and Nothingness". The Former Student One Life, Several Ages The adult and the adolescent who attended school are not separate persons.

The Former Student from "Being and Nothingness". The Former Student One Life, Several Ages The adult and the adolescent who attended school are not separate persons.

The Former Student One Life, Several Ages The adult and the adolescent who attended school are not separate persons. The present person is responsible for having been the former student. Continuity The past is neither a surviving present impression nor an isolated earlier self. It is the present's own mode of having-been.

Pierre's Death Pierre's Death from "Being and Nothingness". Pierre's Death The Survivor's Burden After a friend dies, the living survivor becomes responsible for carrying the friend's past into the present.

Pierre's Death from "Being and Nothingness". Pierre's Death The Survivor's Burden After a friend dies, the living survivor becomes responsible for carrying the friend's past into the present.

Pierre's Death The Survivor's Burden After a friend dies, the living survivor becomes responsible for carrying the friend's past into the present. Death fixes the life as destiny. Changed Relation The dead person no longer reassumes his past freely. Others now interpret and preserve it, or allow it to disappear.

The Past Becomes In-Itself The Past Becomes In-Itself from "Being and Nothingness". The Past Becomes In-Itself Irremediable Identity What has been becomes fixed and cannot be changed in its content.

The Past Becomes In-Itself from "Being and Nothingness". The Past Becomes In-Itself Irremediable Identity What has been becomes fixed and cannot be changed in its content.

The Past Becomes In-Itself Irremediable Identity What has been becomes fixed and cannot be changed in its content. The living person must still assume it without being identical to it. Meaning Remains Open The past's significance can change when a new project reinterprets it, even though the events themselves cannot be removed.

Death's Final Arrest Death's Final Arrest from "Being and Nothingness". Death's Final Arrest Whole Life Made Past Death stops the temporalization through which the for-itself continually surpasses its being.

Death's Final Arrest from "Being and Nothingness". Death's Final Arrest Whole Life Made Past Death stops the temporalization through which the for-itself continually surpasses its being.

Death's Final Arrest Whole Life Made Past Death stops the temporalization through which the for-itself continually surpasses its being. What remains is a past that no living freedom can revise from within. Destiny The dead person's meaning passes into the hands of survivors. The life becomes a public object and an unfinished judgment.

Part Two, Chapter Two, Section I

Part Two, Chapter Two, Section I, Paul example

Part Two, Chapter Two, Section I, discussion of the dead

Part Two, Chapter Two, Section II

Part Two, Chapter Two, dynamic analysis