The Other is the being through whom I can attain any objective self-knowledge

Evidence

Thus for me the Other is first the being for whom I am an object; that is, the being through whom I gain my objectness. If I am to be able to conceive of even one of my properties in the objective mode, then the Other is already given. He is given not as a being of my universe but as a pure subject. Thus this pure subject which by definition I am unable to know—i.e., to posit as object—is always there out of reach and without distance whenever I try to grasp myself as object. In experiencing the look, in experiencing myself as an unrevealed object-ness, I experience the inapprehensible subjectivity of the Other directly and with my being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 747

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Other functionally as the pure subject through whom I become an object, who is by definition unknowable as an object.
• XREF: This pure subject irreducible to objectness prefigures Levinas’s infinite Other and connects to the Sartre-based relational ethics backdrop for Beauvoir. — connects to: Even first-person knowledge of my own body is mediated by the Other’s concepts — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 919; The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 675; The Other’s mutual negation is required for being-for-others, not merely my own (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The Other grounds my objectivity rather than being inferred by analogy from myself #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 756
• Even first-person knowledge of my own body is mediated by the Other’s concepts #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 919
• The Other is a concrete particular condition, not a formal category, of self-awareness #corroborates (0.85)
• The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675
• My being-for-others is radically distinct from my being-for-myself #expands (0.80)
• The Other’s mutual negation is required for being-for-others, not merely my own #expands (0.75)
• The Other’s perspective reveals my own body as merely worldly #expands (0.75)