Re: Sartre\'s Contradiction
You really ought to read Being and Nothingness by Sartre if you're interested in understanding his phenomenology.
Anyway, simply put:
A being in itself doesn't have consciousness.
A being for itself does have consciousness.
All sort of problems arise when something has consciousness which doesn't allow it to be in itself...(this something always remains outside of itself due to the way perception works). It is this whole investigation that is actually the cool part of Sartre. The 'nothingness' part of it all is very key and the treatment is also unique from what I understand.
I butchered the whole thing I'm sure but I actually haven't read Sartre, just Maurice Merleau Ponty...and probably need a primer on the whole school of thought before I actually start making a ton of sense.
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