Sartre Glossary

"being-in-itself: non-conscious being, the being of things and phenomena.

being-for-itself: conscious being, i.e. the human being as a situated embodied consciousness.

being-for-others: the dimension of my being that is due to the Other’s perception or conceptualization of me. I have no control over it.

nothingness: mind-dependent aspects of reality, such as values.

freedom: ability to make choices for the future.

facticity: those aspects of my being that are fixed about me, e.g. who my parents are or what I did yesterday.

bad faith: ignoring what is true of myself – either that I am free or facts about me."