The Other’s inner experiences are constitutively inaccessible to my perception yet organize my field

Evidence

But the same people who uphold this thesis affirm on the other hand that I derive the concept of the Other from myself by reflecting on my own powers and by projection or analogy. Therefore they remain at the center of a vicious circle from which they can not get out. Actually the Other can not be the meaning of my objectivity; he is the concrete, transcending condition of it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 756 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The Other cannot coherently organize my experience given the structure of experience itself; Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being; The Other’s gaze imposes unchosen determinations on my being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1229 (+2 more)

Broader Connections