PHILOSOPHY 201 (STOLZE) Notes on Thomas Wartenberg, Existentialism
Chapter Three: Others Skepticism Dis-solving skepticism The They The Look “Hell is other people” Personal freedom and others
Two Forms of Philosophical Skepticism Problem of the external world Problem of other minds
Descartes’ Solution to Skepticism From skepticism to the cogito to God—and then back to the world.
Dis-solving Skepticism Heidegger’s interpretation of Van Gogh’s painting A Pair of Shoes (1886)
More Peasant Shoes Another painting by Van Gogh: A Pair of Shoes (1887)
The They Heidegger’s analysis of the influence of others
The Look Sartre’s thought experiment regarding the jealous lover who becomes the object of another’s look; his general point about the formation of the ego
“Hell is Other People” Sartre’s play No Exit
Personal Freedom and Others De Beauvoir on Childhood and Adolescence