And, Heidegger emphasizes, we always do so alongside and with others for whom being is also an issue. We only ever confront the question of being, however, within a concrete historical world. Hegel’s famous theory of the “master-slave dialectic.” For Heidegger, each of us is a Dasein – that is, we are the kind of being for whom being is an issue. The first influence is Heidegger’s discussion of Dasein as “being-with” ( mitsein). However, Sartre argues on the basis of his larger philosophical project that human relationships are ineradicably fraught with conflict and struggle.īy KsKal [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( ) or CC BY-SA 3.0 ( )%5D, from Wikimedia CommonsSartre’s discussion of our relationships with others draws heavily on two primary influences. Notoriously, Sartre has the character Garcin announce in his play No Exit that “Hell is - other people.” This may seem like a pessimistic overstatement.

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