PHL 366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Existentialism, Trojan War, Connotation
4 Dec 2018
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The disclosure of the agent in speech and action. Human plurality (condition of action and speech) has the twofold character of equality and distinction. If men were not equal, they couldn"t understand each other. Those who came before them wouldn"t have been able to plan for the future. If men were not distinct, each human wouldn"t need speech or action to make themselves understood. Signs and sounds to communicate would be enough. Human distinctness is not the same as otherness. Otherness is an important aspect of plurality. Why we are unable to say what anything is without distinguishing it from something else. Only man can express his distinction and distinguish himself. In man, otherness (which he shares with everything that is) and distinctness (which he shares with everything alive) becomes uniqueness. The appearance of being distinguished from mere bodily existence is an initiative which no human being can refrain and still be human.
