pour-soi
/pʊəˈswɑː/ /pɔːˈswɑː/Philosophy
noun
In existentialism: the spontaneous, free being of consciousness; being for-itself. Opposed to en soi, being-in-itself.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Journal of Philosophy. From French pour-soi knowledge of the concious being of itself, human being conscious of itself from pour for + soi oneself, itself, originally after German Fürsichsein.
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