The Other grounds my objectivity rather than being inferred by analogy from myself
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
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes Sartre’s argument that the Other is the transcendental condition of my being-for-others, which is a core ontological term in the book’s system.
- XREF: This directly sets up Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity treatment of the Other; also echoes Hegel’s master-slave dialectic in a way Sartre is deliberately restructuring. — connects to: The Other cannot coherently organize my experience given the structure of experience itself; The Other’s inner experiences are constitutively inaccessible to my perception yet organize my field; The relation to my judged self is ontological, not epistemic (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Others’ meanings present themselves to me as objective, not as my own choices
#corroborates(0.92) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1207 - Even first-person knowledge of my own body is mediated by the Other’s concepts
#expands(0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 919 - The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself
#expands(0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 444 - The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself
#complicates(0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675