Transcendence

‘The relation of the regions of being is a primordial bursting forth,’ we said, ‘which forms part of the very structure of these beings.’ The for-itself is responsible in its being for its relation with the in-itself or, alternatively, it produces itself from the very beginning on the foundation of a relation to the in-itself. The only kind of knowledge is intuitive. The for-itself&s;s presence to being as a totality stems from the fact that the for-itself has to be — in the mode of being what it is and being what it is – its own totality as a detotalized totality. Time, in so far as it is encountered by an ecstatic self-temporalizing temporality, is always a self-transcendence, and refers from ‘before’ to ‘after’ and from ‘after’ to ‘before’. But, in so far as Time is grasped on the in-itself, this self-transcendence is not what Time has to be; it is been, within Time.

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