PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jean-Paul Sartre
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**sartre says there is no truly satisfying neutral middle ground** you just keep moving back and forth between two extremes. He says you have a consciousness of the other"s gaze not just your own that you are bleeding out of. ** you can agree or disagree but go deeper into the issue. Sartre: recall 1st attitude towards others (love, masochism, 2nd attitude towards others. Indifference a: sexual desire, sadism, fundamental existential insecurity my reality (for others) escapes me when you see someone else peeking through a hole in a door. It"s like your reality hemorrhaging: you want to captivate that person, so you make yourself seductive so you are a b. center for them. An indispensible part of the world falling in love. Ideal / goal of love what love is seeking is, justification of my existence by a free subject.