Being (disambiguation)

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence.

Being may also refer to:

Grammar and linguistics

• Being, the present participle and gerund form of the English verb to be

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

• Being and Nothingness, a 1943 essay on phenomenological ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Being and Time, a 1927 book by Martin Heidegger

Music

• Being (album), 1974 Wigwam album
• "Being" (Kotoko song)
• "Being" (Lali Esposito song)
• "Being", a song by Opshop, from the album You Are Here

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• On Being, a public radio program about religion

Philosophy

• Being in itself, a term from 20th-century philosophy
• Category of being, the metaphysical classification of all beings
• Ego (religion), spiritual or religious "beingness"
• Great chain of being, the rationalist classification of all beings
• Human being
• Human beings in Buddhism
• Reference failure, a concept of Bertrand Russell involving fictional beings
• Sentient beings (Buddhism), a type of being
• Supreme Being, the highest in the hierarchy of beings

Other uses

• Being (company), Japanese company
• Digital being, an artificially intelligent machine
• Energy being, a fictional lifeform
• Liminal being, a fictional lifeform

See also

• Being Human (disambiguation)
• Ontology, the study of being
• Ousia, Greek for being