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
- The Other cannot coherently organize my experience given the structure of experience itself
#contradicts(0.85) - Encountering the Other reveals the for-itself having an outside and being embedded in being
#expands(0.80) - The Other grounds my objectivity rather than being inferred by analogy from myself
#corroborates(0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 756 - The Other’s gaze imposes unchosen determinations on my being
#expands(0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1229 - Acquaintance reveals only the other’s outward-facing self, not their essence
#qualifies(0.70) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7794