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This paper examines Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" and how he portrays the nature of consciousness and material reality. The paper looks at this nature by way of Sartre's early works that have a bearing on these issues, including "Being and Nothingness", "The Psychology of Imagination", and "Nausea". The paper points out that Sartre relied very heavily on the categories of Heidegger's "Being and Time" and thus considers how Heidegger would assess the Sartrean 'en-soi'.

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"There is the common-place acknowledgement that Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is an interpretation of Martin Heidegger's discussions of anxiety, guilt, death, and temporality in Being and Time. Indeed, Sartre's debt to Heidegger is substantial. For example, Heidegger's Dasein, inauthenticity, and facticity (or thrownness) become Sartre's pour-soi, bad faith, and contingency, respectively."

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