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• Title:
  Pejorativisation of Solitude. A Narratological Deception?
• Creator:
  Domeracki, Piotr
• Description:
  In this paper I address the problem of the pejorativisation of solitude in philosophical discourse. By the pejorativisation of solitude I mean giving it a negative meaning. I show that the tendency to the pejorativisation of solitude in philosophy was initiated by Aristotle. He saw solitude as contrary to human nature. This nature is supposed to determine people to form organised communities with others. Only through them the individual is able to survive and thrive. In solitude, one quickly learns how inautarkic is and suffers because of it. Thomas Hobbes was one of the first philosophers to challenge Aristotle’s approach. He argued that man strives for community with others not as a result of a supposedly social nature, but because as a child one is dependent and helpless, and as an adult one expects benefits or honours from others. My thesis is that the pejorativisation of solitude is responsible for its negative stereotyping, the formation of prejudices against it and the learned helplessness syndrome, which makes us vulnerable to solitude.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2024 Piotr Domeracki
• Date:
  2024.11.17
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Ruch Filozoficzny; Vol. 79 No. 4 (2023): Around Monoseology. Philosophical and Psychological Confrontations with Solitude; 197-216;
  Ruch Filozoficzny; Tom 79 Nr 4 (2023): Around Monoseology. Philosophical and Psychological Confrontations with Solitude; 197-216;
  2545-3173;
  0035-9599
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/RF/article/view/56251/40389
• Subject:
  solitude;
  loneliness;
  pejorativisation;
  Friedrich Nietzsche;
  Barbara Taylor;
  Thomas Hobbes;
  Michael Oakeshott;
  individual manqué
• Identyfikator: https://apcz.umk.pl/RF/article/view/56251
• Dostawca danych:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text