Being (disambiguation)
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Being is that which has existence or actuality or by synecdoche a living creature or the essence or personality of a human.
Being, may also refer to:
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Philosophy
- Being (philosophy) The ultimate category including all this is, in eternity.
- Being-in-itself, a term from 20th-century philosophy
- Category of being, the metaphysical classification of all beings
- Ego (spirituality), spiritual or religious "beingness"
- Fictional beings and reference failure, a concept of Bertrand Russell
- Great chain of being, the rationalist classification of all beings
- Human being
- Human beings in Buddhism
- Sentient beings (Buddhism), a type of being
- Supreme Being, the highest in the hierarchy of beings
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See also
- Being Human (disambiguation)
- Ontology, the study of being
- Ousia, Greek for being
- "Being and Nothingness", an essay on phenomenological ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Being and Time, a book by Martin Heidegger
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