"Epistemological loneliness is the sense of being isolated and alienated from others."
Some philosophers, such as Sartre, believe in an epistemic loneliness in which loneliness is a fundamental part of the human condition because of the paradox between people's consciousness desiring meaning in lifeand the isolation and nothingness of the universe.
Just as nature abhors a vacuum , consciousness abhors its own vacuous vortex and is constrained to seek in futility the plentitude of Being in order to fill up the lack.
One attempts to unite the emptiness and nothing that comprise his consciousness (Being-for-itself) with the fullness of Being,However, according to some philosophers, this unity is impossible, and thus humans are nothing but a futile frustration to be something they cannot.
Sartre believed that love is mankind's most radical attempt of consciousness to transcend its own loneliness. Through love
Loneliness for love by Lovelytheband. demonstrate how individual has a need to find themselves with in other.
[Chorus]'Cause I keep mistaking loneliness for love
I'm trying to find myself inside someoneAnything at all not to feel alone.
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Age of loneliness
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.—F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Loneliness is very much a real issue and I'm glad someone is willing to do report on it. However, I don't think that love is the direct counter to loneliness. When someone has a task they are devoted to and enjoy doing, it really doesn't matter who the are with or even if they are by themselves.
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People often associate loneliness with the physical state of being by yourself, or on your own. However, it can come even when surrounded by the people you love. It's something that can take multiple forms and is hard to completely figure out or "fix".
ReplyDeleteLove can take many forms, and though Sartre isn't always clear I think he must mean that the way to defeat loneliness is to find someone or something, some cause, some larger purpose to love and devote oneself to. Interpersonal love and recognition by other humans are crucial, for most of us, but a sense of existential commitment and a passion for living are the ultimate balm for the debilitating forms of solitude. NOTE, though, that there are enlivening forms of solitude too. Especially in a time of quarantine, we must cultivate the ability to be solitary and NOT lonely. The secular Buddhist Stephen Batchelor has a new book about that, The Art of Solitude.
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That F. Scott Fitzgerald quote you used has always hit me hard. I think you've highlighted something that's so true about the human condition. Many people are motivated and desperate to find a partner not out of their desire to find true love, but out of their fear of ending up alone. This subject of isolation and loneliness is more relevant than ever before and it's definitely essential that we continue to talk about and take seriously just how much of a toll it can take on people.
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Indeed. Wonderful essay by Masha Gessen (citing Hannah Arendt) on this very point:
Delete"Loneliness, which I have experienced on several book leaves, makes me sad and stupid. Solitude—the opportunity to work alone while still being able to feed on human connection—makes me think. Arendt wrote that isolation is the enemy of solitude: when we cannot see our reflection in the eyes and ideas of others, the self disappears, and solitude turns into loneliness." https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-political-consequences-of-loneliness-and-isolation-during-the-pandemic