Last week, I asked my twelfth-grade philosophy students to apply Jean Paul Sartre’s idea of “the look” to their experiences of online learning. Specifically, I assigned a “journal entry discussing to what extent we experience Sartre’s ‘the look’ differently between a classroom in real life versus online learning via Teams.” In today’s post, I take a stab at answering it. I suggest that the solution to the-look-induced existential anxiety in the virtual classroom is that we reflect on how others perceive us even when we cannot see others seeing us.Philosophers across space and time have grappled with the question of Read more