nothingness

nothing

Martin Heidegger

But since any attempt to think about existence inadvertently describes it, Roquentin finds that there is no reason behind existence, only 'nothingness.' It is important to remember that Sartre's 'nothingness' can also be considered a form of existence. This paradox is another reason for Roquentin's Nausea. Sartre thus believed that since there was no God and that there was no rationality to existence, human existence was 'contingent,' or just an accident. Humans are thus free to create their own individual essence but must also deal with the responsibility and anxiety that their existence is contingent... that anything can happen to them. As Sartre explained, we are thus 'condemned to be fr ('')

is a social form that is generally centrally conceived, controlled, and comparatively devoid of distinctive content.

defines nothing as 'a social form that is generally centrally conceived, controlled, and comparatively devoid of distinctive content' (Ritzer 2007/2007:36).

is the chief character of a hole, but you can still break your neck in it.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it. - Author Unknown

is that which cannot be transformed into negation.

that which cannot be transformed into negation.

is not absolute negation—not the death of all things—but indifferentiation or, in other words, the absence of conflicts and contrasts and hence, the banishment of pain and dynamism.

In order properly to grasp the notion of Nirvana, and to understand the ecstasy of self-annihilation, it is very important to recognize that this oriental ‘nothingness’ is not absolute negation—not the death of all things—but indifferentiation or, in other words, the absence of conflicts and contrasts and hence, the banishment of pain and dynamism.

is, according to the Upanishads, the deepest state of consciousness experienced in dreams of the most intense character, devoid of images.

is an abyss that is spanned and made visible for a mystic instant in each transformation of reality, in each crisis, or moment of suffering, or on every occasion when the state of a thing is altered, for nothing can change without making contact with that region of absolute being.

nothingness, n.All

nothingness