Philosophical Loneliness: A Meaningful Silence

Abstract

An unpleasant emotional response is commonly concluded as a sign of loneliness which, at any rate, cannot easily be understood nor appreciated. It is totally under the custody of a person, who in general, is nearing a health disorder. Apart from this sort of clinical depression, it visibly progresses through mood swings which an onlooker can grasp without any difficulty. In the modern age much owing to the abruptly changing social order and the value system, it has become quite common and therefore is looked upon as a seasonal affective disorder. There are numerous symptoms and factors varying in intensity. However, the most common symptom which can even clinically be diagnosed is from the behaviour of the victim who only adopts a sort of social withdrawal. As a result, he creates his own defined world permitting entry to none. The sad condition pervades unabated and prevails over all the mental activities of the subject. Furthermore, the damaging part is its gaining rigidity and dismantling the whole personality as such. When it comes to this kind of disorder it is always considered as a habit of nurturing false ideals and goals thereof. However, with proper enrichment of knowledge one may find a comfort zone in their own choice nest for a typical psychological security. Although, not in all cases, we have examples of a few globally recognized philosophers who chose the path of isolation and pretended to be very comfortable. In fact, such famous philosophers indeed enjoyed their privacy though filled with terrible loneliness. This paper attempts to present the psychological factors and philosophical outlooks as yardsticks in shaping such personalities who voluntarily clinged to an unusual behavioural science. In this context only a chosen few philosophers would be referred, whose names have been synonymously connected to an extreme format of an ‘ism’, like Pessimism, Optimism, Existentialism, Hedonism, Stoicism etc. Each has his own perception of life and needless to say a systematic response to the same might have forced to coin a new workable and usable idea or philosophy. Some of them had a lukewarm desire owing to which their ideas could not find a proper growth but those with a steaming and energetic wishful thinking succeeded in establishing a concrete philosophy and so got meaningfully isolated.