In the eleventh episode of First Philosophy, Awee Prins continues with Sartre by confronting one of his most unsettling ideas: the gaze. Sartre’s claim is radical and uncomfortable — our relations to others are not grounded in empathy or harmony, but in conflict, reduction, and exposure.
We move through Sartre’s famous examples — the look, shame, love, pity — and slowly arrive at a strange moment of clarity halfway through the episode: an almost awe-filled realization of just how much of our everyday life is structured by being seen, judged, and fixed by others.

Along the way, Sonia and Kas (inevitably) interrupt — not to derail the argument, but to test it, resist it, and occasionally push it somewhere unexpected. Their interruptions become part of the episode’s rhythm: philosophy as something that refuses to stay neat.

This episode also sets the stage for what comes next, as Sartre’s bleak account of intersubjectivity opens toward later thinkers who try — and perhaps fail — to escape the violence of the gaze.

Let's begin, finally!

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