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Original Solitude
Original solitude is the state of man before the creation of the second man. Man was alone, before God alone. Man named all the animals, but by doing this man was discovers who he truly is. He defines himself and searches for his identity. By way of saying "this is not me, but a goose, or moose or what have you" man realizes that he is different or even proximate to the animals. God has granted to man freedom of will and choice. Man recognizes that he superior to the animals, because he is made in God's image. God gave man dominion over the earth. Yahweh-God stated, "it is not good that man should be alone, I will make a partner fit for him." Man's solitude will have a new meaning after the creation of the second man.
From the Theology of the Body
Man finds himself alone before God mainly to express, through a first
self-definition, his own self-knowledge, as the original and fundamental
manifestation of mankind. Self-knowledge develops at the same rate as knowledge
of the world, of all the visible creatures, of all the living beings to which
man has given a name to affirm his own dissimilarity with regard to them. In
this way, consciousness reveals man as the one who possesses a cognitive faculty
as regards the visible world. With this knowledge which, in a certain way,
brings him out of his own being, man at the same time reveals himself to himself
in all the peculiarity of his being. He is not only essentially and subjectively
alone. Solitude also signifies man's subjectivity, which is constituted through
self-knowledge. Man is alone because he is "different" from the visible world,
from the world of living beings. ... This process also leads to the first
delineation of the human being as a human person with the specific subjectivity
that characterizes him.