being-in-itself

English

Noun

being-in-itself (uncountable)

(philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology) The self-contained and fully realized being or existence of objects.

See also

being-for-itself

References

being in itself on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Jean-Paul Sartre, trans. Hazel Barnes, Being and Nothingness, "Key to Special Terminology", 1984 Philosophical Library, Inc.

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