Idealism’s self-enclosed monads are still separated by space

Evidence

The knowing subject can neither limit another subject nor cause itself to be limited by another subject. It is isolated by its positive plenitude, and consequently between itself and another equally isolated system there is preserved a spatial separation as the very type of exteriority. Thus it is still space which implicitly separates my consciousness from the Other’s. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does Sartre’s own for-itself avoid this same charge of isolation by positive plenitude? The answer presumably lies in the look and the for-itself’s fundamental lack.
• XREF: connects to: A pre-established harmony between windowless monads creates the semblance of causal interaction. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2129

Broader Connections

• A pre-established harmony between windowless monads creates the semblance of causal interaction. #expands (1.00) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2129