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Single Idea 24016

[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness ]

Full Idea

It is of the essence of consciousness to transcend itself

Gist of Idea

Consciousness always transcends itself

Source

Jean-Paul Sartre (Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions [1939], §III)

Book Ref

Sartre,Jean-Paul: 'Sketch for a Theory of Emotions' [Routledge 1994], p.53

A Reaction

As usual, I am a bit baffled by these sorts of pronouncement. Sounds like an oxymoron to me. Maybe it is a development of Schopenhauer's thought.

Related Idea

Idea 4166 A consciousness without an object is no consciousness [Schopenhauer]

The 6 ideas from 'Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions'

20491 States have a monopoly of legitimate violence [Sartre, by Wolff,J]
24016 Consciousness always transcends itself [Sartre]
24015 Emotions makes us believe in and live in a new world [Sartre]
24013 An emotion and its object form a unity, so emotion is a mode of apprehension [Sartre]
24017 Emotion is one of our modes of understanding our Being-in-the-World [Sartre]
24014 Emotions are a sort of bodily incantation which brings a magic to the world [Sartre]