A While ago I discussed the prime doctrines of Solipsism in which the solipsist’s self is considered to function as the sole, irrefutable center of conscious existence, namely, the existence that posits “I am my world,” and “The world is my world” (Wittgenstein 5.621, 5.63). In fact, what the Solipsist knows is the status of her/his ‘within,’ namely, the state in which the ego stands as the sole inventive voice/force, and presents its subjective interpretations as the only authentic representation of the external reality, namely, the world.
In order not to make this post a heavily philosophical/literary explanation of such a vehemently arrogant self-centered perspective, I have selected lines from an article entitled, “Solipsism: the forgotten art” by Ralph Arthur Hall, which will be direct quoted below:
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The ’solipsist viewpoint’ is everyone’s viewpoint. It is the viewpoint of singular, unobstructed, direct experience in the broadest sense of the word. It is an idiosyncratic, dynamic presentation of consciousness representing one’s existence itself.
[...] we will not erroneously conclude that the “only reality that exists is the self”, as has been historically noted. We will recognize the objective, other things and people, but only to the extent that the subjective perceives them.
In the case of solipsism all subjective and objective knowledge is considered as a manifestation of, and subject to, the analysis of the cognitive individual. [...], as a solipsist observation, all considerations only lie within the cognitive individual – the one cognizant of the circumstances. Hence, all experience, including that which is labeled as non-subjective, is contained and analyzed within our subjective selves.
