nihilation

The basis of Sartrean freedom is ontological: we are free because we are not a self (an in-itself) but a presence-to-self (the transcendence or "nihilation" of our self).

Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004

Heidegger now turns to the process of “nihilation”, as revealed in the experience of anxiety.

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If Being is the difference it makes to us that there is something rather than nothing, nihilation is what tends to eliminate this difference.

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If Being is the difference it makes to us that there is something rather than nothing, nihilation is what tends to eliminate this difference.

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In nihilation, everything threatens to lose its significance: “All things and we ourselves sink into indifference” P.101.

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According to “What is Metaphysics?” we get a sense of beings as a whole, and of Being itself, when we “transcend” the whole of beings in anxiety and experience nihilation.

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According to “What is Metaphysics?” we get a sense of beings as a whole, and of Being itself, when we “transcend” the whole of beings in anxiety and experience nihilation.

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In nihilation, everything threatens to lose its significance: “All things and we ourselves sink into indifference” P.101.

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Heidegger now turns to the process of “nihilation”, as revealed in the experience of anxiety.

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Later that evening, having suffered a shameful ar nihilation at the dart board in the back room at the Captain's Lodge, he joined the elderly Perkins sister under of the big overhead television.

Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995