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Sartre gives a famous example of someone looking through a keyhole, to illustrate his concept of "The Look", in Being and Nothingness.

Let us imagine that moved by jealousy, curiosity, or vice I have just glued my ear to the door and looked through a keyhole. I am alone and on the level of a non-thetic self-consciousness. This means first of all that there is no self to inhabit my consciousness, nothing therefore to which I can refer my acts in order to qualify them. They are in no way known; I am my acts and hence they carry in themselves their whole justification. I am a pure consciousness of things, and things, caught up in the circuit of my selfness, offer to me their potentialities as the proof of my non-thetic consciousness (of) my own possibilities. This means that behind that door a spectacle is presented as "to be seen," a conversation as "to be heard."
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But all of a sudden I hear footsteps in the hall. Someone is looking at me. What does this mean? It means that I am suddenly affected in my being and that essential modifications appear in my structure - modifications which I can apprehend and fix conceptually by means of the reflective cogito.
First of all, I now exist as myself for my unreflective consciousness. It is this irruption of the self which has been most often described: I see myself because somebody sees me - as it is usually expressed.
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Only the reflective consciousness has the self directly for an object. The unreflective consciousness does not apprehend the person directly or as its object; the person is presented to consciousness in so far as the person is an object for the Other. This means that all of a sudden I am conscious of myself as escaping myself, not in that I am the foundation of my own nothingness but in that I have my foundation outside myself. I am for myself only as I am a pure reference to the Other.

If it helps, just try to imagine yourself parallel parking into a super tight space while a crowd of people watches.
Oh really? It bothers you that Seneca is Roman and Agamemnon is Greek, but he's drawn as a Roman? Not very Stoic of you.
"Why don't I want to marry you? Because you are a fuckin' nerd, Carnap, that's why."
Mary Warnock was a 20th century English philosopher of ethics. She critiqued Logical Positivists like Ayer and Carnap for making ethics a topic that philosophers no longer wanted to contribute to, because ethical questions may not be empirically decidable. This was especially true as positivism became popular in England for her generation of philosophers. She thought a philosopher's role must not only be to clarify moral questions, but ideally in the public sphere in a way that has a real effect. She chaired numerous government committees on ethics, most notably on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.
In contrast Carnap was a huge nerd.
Later that night Kant finished what was possibly his greatest masterpiece: The Critique of Pure Fun.
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"If I say enough wise quotes, my opponent is bound to make a mistake."
So remember, the worst thing that can happen when you ask out a girl is that they could inadvertently destroy your attempt to ground mathematics in pure logic. It's probably not worth the risk.
The Will to Power, chapter 1:
Parking tickets, they are really annoying, am I right?