Before You Can Be With Others, First Learn To Be Alone By Jennifer Stitt

The article “Before you can be with others, first learn to be alone” was written by Jennifer Stitt, a graduate student in the history of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on 11 July, 2017. In this article, Stitt discusses the importance of people learning to get in touch with their inner selves to attain their fullest potential. She tries to analyze this by looking at famous philosophers and historical figures including Edgar Allan Poe, Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann, and Plato. Stitt also tries to draw an important distinction between being in a state of solitude and being lonely. Stitt starts off her argument by looking at why Poe and Arendt stressed the significance of solitude. Both of these men believed that by placing