Being-for-itself

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The category of being that comes together with itself in its otherness. Not merely for another (existence, Dasein), but for itself. The first form of self-relation at the level of being.

Origin: Hegel's development in the Logic of Being as the completion of quality. Transition from existence through finitude to being-for-itself.

In Hegel: Enc. §96-98; SL Vol. 1, Quality

Cross-references: Existence (Dasein), Being-in-itself, Self-relation, Quality

Commentary on the Logic, Chapter 1

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