Being loved means becoming the ground on which the world appears for the Other
Evidence
Love reveals us to ourselves by making us come out of ourselves. We affirm ourselves by contact with that which is foreign and complementary to us. Love as a form of understanding discovers new heavens and new earths even in the very landscape where we have always lived. Here is the great secret: the world is other, I myself am other. And I am no longer alone in knowing it. Even better: someone taught me this. Woman therefore plays an indispensable and capital role in the consciousness man has of himself. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1884 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Being loved transforms one’s facticity from contingent to justified — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 949; To love is always to want to be loved in return, generating indefinite regress. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 958; To love is essentially to project being loved by the Other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 956 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- The other’s love reveals the self by exposing its own otherness
#expands(0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1884 - Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being
#corroborates(0.80) - Willing to be loved alienates the lover’s freedom into the body-for-others.
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