The primordial experience of the human being recognizing itself as ontologically irreducible to all other living beings. The human being discovers that no other living being can be an adequate “Thou” for it — only another person. From this original solitude springs the longing for personal community and self-transcendence.
Original solitude and art
Art as communication springs essentially from original solitude: out of the experience of being ontologically unique and irreducible arises the need to communicate oneself — to make something of one’s own value-response accessible to the other. AI has no original solitude and therefore no need for communication — it has no self that could be transcended.
Ontological classification:
- Superordinate concept: Entity
Chapter assignment: Chapter 4: What Is Human Personhood? (German)
Sources: Generated by querying the Personhood ontology. Bexten 2017, pp. 252, 259 (Wojtyła: original solitude).
Further sources:
- Wojtyła, Karol (1969): Osoba i czyn. Kraków (Eng.: The Acting Person, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979) (original solitude as a fundamental personal experience).