PP233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Facticity, Jean-Paul Sartre, Solipsism
Document Summary
Sartre on sexual desire: sartre"s ontology: ways of being, sexual desire: facticity and transcendence, the look: i and the other, the caress: sexual desire and the flesh. Nagel on sexual perversion: the desire to be complete, understanding sexual desire through perversion, romeo and juliet: what they want, the sexual encounter: meeting of body and mind. Ontology= study of being (existence) the ways in which we exist in the world. Different levels of existence (objects of thought: thing-in-itself (unconscious/ passive)- facticity, thing-for-itself (conscious/ active)- transcendence totally free (free will) Positional- it posits objects i. e. does this table really exist or is it just a collection of atoms. In order to be conscious of the self, we must relate to the other. Man- object (as opposed to a subject) If the other didn"t exist one is unable to distinguish whether they are the object or the subject. The most intimate connection to the other.
