It is with respect to this multiple significance of the public realm that the term "private", in its original pricative sense, has no meaning. To live an entirely private life means above all to be deprived of things essential to a truly human life: to be deprived of the reality that comes from being seen and heard by others, to be deprived of an " objective" relationship with them through the intermediary of a common world of things, to be deprived of the possibility of archieving something more permanent than life itself. The privation of privacy lies in the absence of others; as far as they are concerned, private man does not appear, and therefore it is as though he did not exist. Whatever he does remains without significance and consequence to others, ad what matters to him is without interest to other people.
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