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