JeanPaul_Sartre_JeanPaul_Sartre_Basic_Writing

176Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writingssuch as will be established on the bases of original Temporality. I am an infinity ofpossibilities, for the meaning of the For-itself is complex and cannot be contained inone formula. But a particular possibility may be more determinant for the meaning ofthe present For-itself than another which is nearer in universal time. For example, thepossibility of going at two o’clock to see a friend whom I ve not seen for two years—this is truly a possible which I am. But the nearer possibilities—the possibilities ofgoing there in a taxi, by bus, by subway, on foot—all these at present remainundertermined. I am not any one of these possibilities. Also there are gaps in the seriesof my possibilities. In the order of knowledge the gaps will be filled by the constitutionof an homogeneous time without lacuna; in the order of action they will be filled by thewill—that is, by rational, thematizing choice in terms of my possibles, and ofpossibilities which are not and will never be my possibilities and which I will realize inthe mode of total indifference in order to be reunited with a possible which I am.