“The concept ‘neighbor’ is really a reduplication of your own self; the ‘neighbor’ is what philosophers would call the ‘other,’ the touchstone for testing what is selfish in self-love. Insofar, for the sake of the thought, it is not even necessary that the neighbor should exist. If a man lived on a desert island, if he developed his mind in harmony with the commandment*, then by renouncing self-love he could be said to love his neighbor.”
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~Source: Works Of Love (1847)
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
*Commandment: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
