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English
Noun
being-for-itself (uncountable)
- The nihilation of being-in-itself
- Consciousness conceived as a lack of being, a desire for being, a relation to being.
- The origin of negation and destruction.
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Taken from:
The Hazel Barnes translation of Being and Nothingness. Key to special Terminology Co. 1984 Philosophical Library, Inc.