Being and Nothingness
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Being and Nothingness is Jean-Paul Sartre’s major philosophical treatise that systematically develops his existentialist ontology and analysis of human freedom, consciousness, and bad faith.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Being and Nothingness canonical | 6 |
| L’Être et le Néant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Being and Nothingness Context triple: [Jean-Paul Sartre, notableWork, Being and Nothingness]
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Being and Time
Being and Time is Martin Heidegger’s seminal 1927 philosophical work that fundamentally reshaped existential phenomenology and 20th-century continental philosophy.
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The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus that uses the Greek myth of Sisyphus to explore the concept of the absurd and the search for meaning in a meaningless world.
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Études philosophiques
Études philosophiques is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his more overtly philosophical and metaphysical novels and tales.
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Blanchot
Blanchot is one of the prestigious Grand Cru vineyard sites in the Chablis wine region of Burgundy, France, renowned for producing high-quality Chardonnay wines.
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Meaning and Necessity
"Meaning and Necessity" is a seminal work in analytic philosophy by Rudolf Carnap that develops a rigorous theory of meaning and modal logic using the framework of semantic analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Being and Nothingness Target entity description: Being and Nothingness is Jean-Paul Sartre’s major philosophical treatise that systematically develops his existentialist ontology and analysis of human freedom, consciousness, and bad faith.
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A.
Being and Time
Being and Time is Martin Heidegger’s seminal 1927 philosophical work that fundamentally reshaped existential phenomenology and 20th-century continental philosophy.
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B.
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus that uses the Greek myth of Sisyphus to explore the concept of the absurd and the search for meaning in a meaningless world.
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C.
Études philosophiques
Études philosophiques is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his more overtly philosophical and metaphysical novels and tales.
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D.
Blanchot
Blanchot is one of the prestigious Grand Cru vineyard sites in the Chablis wine region of Burgundy, France, renowned for producing high-quality Chardonnay wines.
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E.
Meaning and Necessity
"Meaning and Necessity" is a seminal work in analytic philosophy by Rudolf Carnap that develops a rigorous theory of meaning and modal logic using the framework of semantic analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
existentialist work
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non-fiction book ⓘ philosophical treatise ⓘ |
| author | Jean-Paul Sartre ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
authenticity
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bad faith ⓘ being-for-itself ⓘ being-in-itself ⓘ facticity ⓘ freedom ⓘ nothingness ⓘ the look ⓘ transcendence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
ontology
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phenomenology ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
French philosophy
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literary existentialism ⓘ postwar existentialism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edmund Husserl
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G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Martin Heidegger ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
bad faith
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consciousness ⓘ existentialism ⓘ human freedom ⓘ ontology ⓘ |
| method | phenomenological description ⓘ |
| notableEdition | English translation by Hazel E. Barnes ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Being and Nothingness
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surface form:
L’Être et le Néant
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| philosophicalClaim |
bad faith is a form of self-deception
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consciousness is nothingness ⓘ existence precedes essence ⓘ human beings are radically free ⓘ there is no fixed human nature ⓘ |
| philosophicalDomain |
ethics
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metaphysics ⓘ philosophical anthropology ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
existentialism
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phenomenology ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Critique of Dialectical Reason
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Existentialism Is a Humanism ⓘ |
| settingOfArgument | world of everyday human relations ⓘ |
| structure | divided into multiple parts and chapters ⓘ |
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L’Être et le Néant