I'm new to this forum, so I'm not sure what areas of philosophy some people might have focus on. So rather than waste my time typing out my views on Sartre's notion of Nothingness first, I'd like to ask if there were any here familiar with his works?

I take from him that it is nihilated by being. A Being by which nothingness is at the very heart of its ontology. We then can grasp the appearance of nothing-as-being through negations. Lots more to say. Any comments so far?

*I take it as a huge part of his ontological views on freedom and further into a psychological boundary.

regards,

P.Mersault

Shoot, if you're still here.

Nothingness can be taken on a psychological or ontological level. On a psychological level, nothingness is an infinity of abstraction by which the for-itself seperates itself from the in-itself. This nothingness is the for-itself's attempt at defining by judging the upsurge of the in-itself by means of what it "is, or is-not".

Or that's how I see it.

On the ontological level, nothingness is that from which being arises. Being, like the virtual particles, is an upsurge of that nothingness- and nothingness at the heart of being, simularly is of being.

Nothingness affects freedom by means of the above psychological meaning - that the for-itself has the power to create reality by means of nihilating judgements.