…excluding the possibility of denial as we all act upon others as objects in infancy. I suppose there are or should I say could be many children who are so evolved as to be more sensitive to others, but are they really children in the mind?
What makes this current of inquiry distinct is not its concern with “existence” in general, but rather its claim that thinking about human existence requires new categories not found in the conceptual repertoire of ancient or modern thought; human beings can be understood neither as substances with fixed properties, nor as subjects interacting with a world of objects.
