Hannah Arendt's notion of plurality contains the idea that the possibility of a person to be oneself is rooted in the implicit presence of countless actual and possible other people.
Yes, the presence of others often deprives me of the option of making myself different, reducing the strategies of being different to imitations of some others, different from the present others, but the very possibility of being myself (despite its ideal normativeness) is possible only in the horizon of otherness.
