Lesson 3 - Intersubjectivity

SELF AWARENESS

• understanding of oneself as an existing human being that recognizes human existence as distinct from other living beings and other humans as well

INDIVIDUALITY

• no two persons are exactly alike

AUTHENTICITY

• once the individual’s thoughts, ideas, and actions express and uphold his or her individuality.

• the courage to be yourself

SELF

• one’s individuality

OTHERS

• objects outside of personal experience

• everyone that’s around you

INTERSUBECTIVITY

• interaction of self and other

• the shared awareness and mutual understanding among persons

• pertains to human relationships characterized by a shared sense of responsibility towards each other respect for differences and empathy.

AXEL HONNETH

• affirms the idea that there is a struggle for recognition for certain people.

1.LOVE

2.RESPECT

3.SOCIAL ESTEEM

• 3 types of recognition according to Axel honneth

BRIAN TRACY

• “the greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance”

CONFUCIUS

• one of the main ideas of Confucianism is Ren or “human-heartedness”

• calls every man to love the others through actions, not through thoughts

1.I-IT RELATION

2.I-THOU RELATION

• the two beings of interhuman relation by Martin Buber

I-IT RELATION

• is a person to thing, subject to object relationship

• suppresses the humanity in other person

• the other person as an object not as a person

I-THOU RELATION

• person to person

• human person as a subject

• involves a mutual sharing of selves, acceptance, and sincerity

• it entails authentic dialogue

MARTIN BUBER

• “the essential problem of the sphere of the interhuman is the duality of being and seeming”

SEEMING

• individual presents himself or herself in a certain way when dealing with others

• persons are taking “rules” or characters when dealing with certain people or situation

KAROL WOJTYLA/POPE JOHN PAUL II

• “we relation”

• human person exists and acts

• s/he is consciously acting, has a will, and is self-determined

• action discloses the nature of the human agent

• the human person is directed toward relating with others and sharing in the communal life for the common good

JEAN-PUAL SARTRE

• human relationships, are frustrating, often inauthentic, and ambiguous

• humans tend to view others as a mean to achieve certain desires (Alienation → I-it)

KARL MARX

• alienation happens when a human being is treated as an object instead of human being

• alienation tends to rise to the exploitation of people

EDITH STEIN

• self-other relationship is being driven by empathy (others have feelings and thoughts)

EDMUND HUSSERL

• believes that intersubjectivity is more than just shared understanding, it is capability to put oneself “in the place where other is”

GABRIEL MARCEL

• genuine relationship as one based on availability or the willingness of a person to be present and be at the disposal of another

CAROL GILLIGAN

• human beings are inherently relational, and interdependence is one of their essential properties.

BEING-WITH-OTHERS

• general notion of the human person