Hell – Is Other People! A Genetic Theory of Personal Relations

Abstract

By adopting a genetic methodology, a theory of personal relations has been developed that both accounts for the worst and allows for the best in human relationships. Sartre’s method of a ‘dialectical degeneration’ is employed to account for our Alienation from each other while Empathy and Sympathy are introduced to allow for the closeness of a personal rapport. Key words ‘Genetic’, ‘Phenomenology’, ‘Ontology’, ‘Empathy’, ‘Alienation’, ‘Isolation’, ‘Sympathy’, ‘Love’, ‘Friendship’, ‘Co-operation’.