**Socratic Method**

Proposition: 
Humans tend to think that what the Other has will complete them. This is false as the other is also incomplete.

I disagree. The Other is complete.

So what does this Other have? 

Whatever I lack.

Interesting. 

So if we bring him and you together, you will be complete.

Part of him.

Ahh ok. I see what you mean.

What do you think is of the other part of him.

I don't care. Something somebody else desires.

So you mean we are like a network where everybody has what  the other wants.

Yes. This is why we always want what the other want and desire causes it stays like that.

So you mean if we join all humans together, we would have a complete being? 

Yes, when humans come together they realize things that defy gods.

Very true.

What about a human flying with natural wings?

Don't be ridiculous, this is impossible. It does not represent fully what a human is. My point is joining all humans together makes the ultimate/ideal human.

Ok. I see your point.

What does this ideal human look like you suppose?

Like a human, the most human human.

So like you? or are you not human?

Yes.

So like you he would have lack too?

so the Other is incomplete and your lack is unjustified from your desire of the other and you are human and complete as you define the complement being what you want from the other. 




Summary of hidden assumptions

Humans are incomplete.

Completeness is relational — what the Other has is only “complete” relative to someone else’s lack.

Completeness can be partially distributed, not intrinsic.
Collective completeness differs from individual completeness.

Desire is dependent on perceived lack, not intrinsic qualities.

Being human imposes constraints on what completeness can be.





General strategy to counter the argument

Redefine completeness as intrinsic, not relational or collective.

Reject the divisibility of completeness—a complete being cannot be “broken into parts.”

Decouple desire from lack—wanting or needing something does not imply incompleteness.

Separate collective capacity from individual completeness—humans may achieve extraordinary things together without being individually incomplete.