Intersubjectivity Q2

Authentic Dialogue

• reflect on the importance of genuine human relations or I-Thou relations.

• It relates to acceptance of Differences

Intersubjectivity

• It refers to the experience and meaning of the interhuman encounter.

This opens us up to:

• the nature of commitment,

• the value of others,

• and the reality of love as the highest form of recognition

Freedom

Love can only performed in?

Willingness

True Love is grounded in the ______ of the individual to share and fully realize the meaning of life by being with someone.

Sole motive of Love

• The OTHER - ______

• Not reducible to an objective reality

• The most important and not the attributes or qualities

Martin Buber

I-It and I-Thou by?

I-Thou

• Refers to encounters and relationships between persons.

• Makes the other complete.

• Personal, emotive, religious.

Eternal Thou

Martin Buber describes God as the?

Seeming

• (Pagwawaring-tao)

• Operates on the level of impression

Proceeds from what you wish to seem, or to appear as something other than yourself, for your own interests

• A way of approaching the other governed by the image one desires to impress on the other;

• One deliberately plays up or hides aspects of emselves in order to impress the other, which makes e look artificial

Being

• (Pagpapakatao)

• Proceeds from what one really is; it is spontaneous, without reserve, and natural

• Persons relate and communicate with each other as they really are, in truth

• There are no needs of masks and pretensions Based on the truth of what one is, not based on what desires to be perceived for

Speechifying

• Talking past others without listening.

• Contrasted to the act of personal making present (Pagtatalumpatian na kabaligtaran ng pagpapaharap sa personal)

• True dialogue makes others present as

persons.

Imposition

• Forcing one's opinion, values, attitudes on others.

• Constitutes holding my own opinion, values, attitudes, and myself without regard for those of the other

• Telling the other how they should act, behave, and respond to things

• Unfolding constitutes finding in the other the disposition toward what I myself recognize as true, good, and beautiful

• Opposed to Unfolding (Pagpapatubo) - finding truth, good, and beauty together.

Obstacles to Dialogue

1. Seeming

2. Being

3. Speechifying

4. Imposition

5. Unfolding

Unfolding

•(Pagpapatubo)

•Finding truth, good, and beauty together

Misconception of Love

• A pleasant sensation.

• An object.

• Confusing falling-in-love with being-in-love.

Ways of escaping loneliness

• Not Authentic

• Drugs, rituals, sex, alcohol.

• Conformity with groups that don't respect uniqueness.
  • Mere activities that don't address the interpersonal longing.

Authentic Way

Through creative and productive work and authentic interpersonal love.

Loving Encounter

• Embodiment of intimacy and meaning.

• Breaking self-preoccupation.

Appeal of the Other

• The other's appeal is themselves

• An invitation to participate in thei subjectivity.

Essential Characteristic of Love

1. Historical - rooted in the real person.

2. Total - indivisible.

3. Eternal - not temporary.

4. Sacred - persons are valuable in themselves.

Historical

Rooted in the real person

Total

Indivisible

Eternal

not temporary

Sacred

Persons are valuable in themselves

I-It

• Things are valued because of the purpose that we put into them

• It is purely empirical

• Things do not have intrinsic moral worth

• A thing is useful or functional because it serves the purpose of man

• No basic capacity to make moral choice

• Their value is something that is bestowed upon them by their creators or owners.

Human Freedom

as persons, we EXPLORE, ENGAGE, and DEVELOP a greater sense of being by being with and for the other.

According to Buber

Persons are possessors of value That is, human person is a value itself

Complete

Loves makes the self of the other?

True Love

the other finds NOT ONLY COMFORT but a LIFE OF FULFILLMENT

Sense of Joy

A Personal Growth that each finds by being with the other when both are truly in LOVE.