INTERSUBJECTIVITY - Philo

Intersubjectivity

Refers to the shared or mutual understanding among agents. It is the capability to put oneself in the place where the other is.

Edmund Husserl

First developed the concept of intersubjectivity as a critique of Rene Descartes problem of other minds where each of us is distinct individuals and we have to use medium (language) to understand each other. 

Martin Buber and Karol Wojtyla

They believed in the notion of concrete experience/existence of the human person. They also think that one must not lose the sight of one’s self in concrete experience. Both refused to regard human person as a composite of some kind of dimensions, such as animality and rationality. 

Martin Buber

A Jewish existentialist philosopher. He was born in Vienna and was brought up in the Jewish tradition. In his work I and Thou (ich and du) (1923), he conceives the human person in his/her wholeness, totality, concrete existence and relatedness to the world. 

I and Thou

Means human person as a subject, who is being different from things. The human person establishes the world of mutual relation of experience. 

I-It Relationship

A relationship of person to a thing, subject to object that is merely experiencing and using ; lacking directedness and mutuality (feeling, and knowing and acting

Saint Pope John Paul II or Karol Wojytyla

He was born in Wadowice, Poland. He was elected to the papacy on October 16, 1978 (264th pope) and was considered a great pope (88%) during his lifetime. He was also an architect of communism’s demise in Poland. 

St. Augustine of Hippo

He added, “no human being should become and end to him/herself. We are responsible to our neighbor as we are to own actions”. 

Person With Disabilities

those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. 

Notion of Poverty

A number of different concepts and measures of poverty relate to its various dimension

Rights of Women

argued that such education would produce women who were mere propagators of fools.

Mary Wollstonecraft

She believes that women must be united to men in wisdom and rationality. 

Authentic Dialogue

Entails a person-to-person, a mutual sharing of selves, acceptance, and sincerity.