Hell – Is Other People! A Genetic Theory of Personal Relations
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/3w2hkz93Keywords:
'Genetic', 'Phenomenology', 'Ontology', 'Empathy', 'Alienation', 'Isolation', 'Sympathy', 'Love', 'Friendship', 'Co-operation'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.
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2 Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Etre et le Néant, tr. Hazel Barnes as Being and Nothingness, Routledge, London, 1969, p. 569.
5 A foot-note to the beginning of section IV of Being and Time explains the translator's embarrassment faced with the need to translate the German das Man, and which is usually translated as 'The They', though I prefer to use the commonality of 'Man'. Sein und Zeit, tr. Macquarrie & Robinson as Being and Time, Harper & Row, New York, 1962, p. 149.
