DeGeorge Links Love, Solitude
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Man breaks the shell that solitude builds around him when he loves another. In loving, he is able to gain the greatest benefit available to humankind — knowledge of self.
Richard DeGeorge, assistant professor of philosophy, linked the power of love with the condition of solitude at a Humanities Forum lecture last night.
"IF SOLITUDE can be transcended, it can be transcended only by love. This leads us inexorably to a philosophy of love," he declared.
Prof. DeGeorge warned that solitude should not be confused with loneliness, which is the absence of stimulation of the mind, the absence of a human need that can be satisfied only by the presence of another human being. He said solitude was the condition of the whole mind or part of the mind in which the individual "lives."
"Where love is, loneliness is not. But where two people love, their solitude is not only maintained but deepened," he said.
ATTEMPTING TO DEFINE the difficult conception of solitude still further, Prof. DeGeorge said:
"A hermit in the desert is said to be in solitude; so is the man who
"A man's solitude determines what he is. What is left of him in his solitude is what he is, and how he uses his solitude determines what he will become."
is surrounded by humanity, but who is alone with his thoughts.
HE SAID the physical body of man tends to promote solitude because in the simple act of occupying space it pushes out all others. But because man has a physical presence, he said, man can enter into physical relationships with his fellows. Solitude is thereby broken. Also, the human organism is a closed system, said Prof. DeGeorge.
He said many factors that contribiute to solitude also tend to bring the individual's solitude into contact with the individual solitudes of his fellow men.
"My toothache is my own, and not properly shareable," he said.
But in regarding solitude as a tool for achieving knowledge of self, man must beware of certain pitfalls, he said.
"ONE MUST BE careful not to fall into the abyss of self and be drowned in bride," he said.
Also, to transcend solitude, a subject-to-subject relationship must
be sought, rather than a subject-to-object relationship. The latter he explained as the search to find oneself by pursuing material things, such as books, the theatre, etc.
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He declared that in order to rise to a higher plane, the only subject-to-subject relationship that can transcend solitude is love.
"I believe solitude and its transcendence lead us necessarily to the doorstep of love" he declared.
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