PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Solipsism, Jean-Paul Sartre
12 Mar 2014
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Essay figure out what is idea that interests you. A face that within the consciousness that holds you within the mind, you produce a sensation of something else outside of me that is like you. I don"t actually encounter the other, you only encounter my representation of the other. We are solipsism we can never get beyond our own consciousness. Things are only represented by my own notion / consciousness. I am fundamentally stuck and can"t get beyond it. The experience of the other is a representation of a physical object (the body) Then you make an inference that b/c that body is like my body there must be a consciousness in there like mine within them (but we have no access to it, it is closed in their body) We actually encounter others in person, we have a direct experience of them not just a. We actually see / experience their consciousness.
