Subjectivity and Ethics(III)

SPEAKER: Yi-Fan PAN

Associate Professor, The department of philosophy, Tunghai University

TOPIC: Being Alones

TIME:  15:30-17:30, Monday, 01 Dec, 2023

VENUE: LA 2009, National Sun Yat-sen University

“Solitude” is a paradoxical word. On the one hand, solitude refers to the impossibility of understanding. On the other hand, the impossibility of understanding makes solitude disappear, because the unknown is impenetrable. If solitude exists, it is self-contradiction and against itself. Does solitude exist, particularly when any understanding of solitude is against itself? Does “being alone” exist?