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A Modern-Day Critique on the Nature of Being in Relation to the Development of an Individual’s Mannerisms: The Individual’s Dependence on Other Individuals Human beings have been social creatures since the very beginning. We see proof of this from even the earliest known cave paintings; handprints of various shapes and sizes, kept neatly frozen in time on the walls of an Indonesian cave (Wilford). Since human beings have kept written record of their encounters, we find social interaction has been the driving force of a majority of their toil. The sense of self that a human being experiences, and everything that a human being ultimately is, is a collection of interactions and the information gained upon interacting with other human beings, and this “self” only arises within the context of intersubjectivity, and this is supported by the way in which human beings self-reflect, the way that human beings are at the mercy of one another, and by the methods that humanity has used to pass down information (which will serve the purpose of establishing that social interaction has been necessary for human beings to exist as they do in their present form.) First, human beings can only self-reflect when witnessing Other human beings. G. W. F. Hegel tells the reader in Phenomenology of …show more content…

Hence, let us at once announce the discovery of a world which we shall call intersubjectivity; this is the world in which man decides what he is and what others are.” (Sartre 302) This excerpt forces the reader to consider the implications of how human beings are impacted by those around them. Sartre, as well as de Beauvoir, knew that human beings live in this constant state of intersubjectivity. This intersubjectivity stands as the antecedent for the consequent of survival and

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