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Liebchen

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| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
Not as a gross generalisation last I checked? |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
| quote: | The basis of Sartre's existentialism is found in The Transcendence of the Ego. To begin with, the thing-in-itself is infinite and overflowing. Any direct consciousness of the thing-in-itself, Sartre refers to as a "pre-reflective consciousness". Any attempt to describe, understand, historicize etc. the thing-in-itself, Sartre calls "reflective consciousness". There is no way for the reflective consciousness to subsume the pre-reflective, and so reflection is fated to a form of anxiety, i.e. the human condition. The reflective consciousness in all its forms, (scientific, artistic or otherwise) can only limit the thing-in-itself by virtue of its attempt to understand or describe it. It follows therefore that any attempt at self-knowledge (self-consciousness) is a construct that fails no matter how often it is attempted. (self-consciousness is a reflective consciousness of an overflowing infinite) In Sartre's words (or more accurately an interpretation of Sartre's words), "Conciousness is consciousness of itself insofar as it is consciousness of a transcendent object".
The same holds true about knowledge of the "Other". The "Other" (being) is a construct of reflective consciousness. One must be careful to understand this more as a form of warning than as an ontological statement. However, there is an implication of Solipsism here that Sartre considers fundamental to any coherent description of the human condition. [1]
Sartre overcomes this Solipsism by a kind of ritual. Self consciousness needs "the Other" to prove (display) its own existence. It has a "masochistic desire" to be limited, i.e. limited by the reflective consciousness of another subject. This is expressed metaphorically in the famous line of dialogue from No Exit, "Hell is other people". |
blablabla, yeah, I know it is really existential, but there is a certain why and a reason to why we fall in love at all. Is everyone even meant to fall in love? Wouldn't that denote some sort of predestination? Our expectations of love and friendship may be what causes us to be hurt in life at all - but still we pursue these things, knowing that, even at best, they cannot last forever. Or do they?
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Dec-11-2006 05:10
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Liebchen

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| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
Predestination, by definition last I checked I wasnt up there with god on making the big calls with any kind of infalliable accuracy. Hence, operate within realistic boundaries rather than be chasing something which probably doesnt exist. |
Now I don't mean to sound like I "live life on the edge" or something ridiculous like that, but I think that taking risks against what is probably realistic is what life is all about. We don't really have a reason to be here - humans could spontaneously disappear tomorrow and I bet the only ones who would miss us would be our dogs and cats, saying "alright - where the fuck is my dinner??". Things are absurd and chaotic and they don't make sense at all sometimes, but that doesn't mean that's the end of it. I think, in many ways, the purpose of each human being (self-assigned or otherwise?) is to create his or her own reality in some sense, and that this aspect of our sentient existence is what causes all pleasure and pain between human beings. I don't think that assessing what others tell you or you think to be realistic is the way you will find the most out of your life - I think that people let their own realities suppress others sometimes, and that everyone wants you to conform to what they expect out of you because that's what corresponds best to their reality. In that sense, Hell is other people. But the good side about that might just be that Heaven is other people as well - and when you create that reality with somebody else, and you both respect one another, regardless of expectation, it can be a very beautiful thing. Love is just a word, after all - it's a very abused term, too - like 'art' and 'peace'.
I guess what I am trying to say is that "chasing something which probably doesnt exist" is just as foolish as chasing something that does. Seeing the goodness and the wholeness in another person (even if you must chase them) is something that you must create, not look for.
/ambling, out of control emo nonsense
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