PP111 Lecture Notes - Facticity, Jean-Paul Sartre
Document Summary
Sartre writes a book called being in nothingness which writes how to exercise phenomenology (study of phenomena). The being of things is different from the being of human, the kind of concioussness that locke thinks of (being conscious of being conscious) Objects have their own essence, made from their makers and such but for humans they create their own essence and their own purpose. Transcendence (to rise above): consciousness transcends" empirical reality (through thought); it does not limit itself strictly to the empirical but can move beyond the simple empirical experience through abstraction or through reflection. Facticity: this term is contrasted with transcendence and characterizes our empirical, bodily reality as well as our social circumstances; out facticity limits us in some ways but not absolutely. We are composed of both transcendence and facticity. We are condemned to be free we are forced to make choices. We only gain completion through the choices we make.
