INTERSUBJECTIVITY�

IPHP - LESSON 6

QUARTER 2

ACTIVITY 1

Identify the persons to whom you are most likely to say the following statements:

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How are you today?

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Did you hear the latest news

I just came back from a party last night.

What do you think I should do to my life?

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I appreciate everything you have done for me.

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Without you, my life will have no meaning.

FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS:

What sets apart the people whom you are close to from the casual acquaintances in your life?

Who are the people that you consider the easiest to relate to? Whom do you find difficult to get along with?

FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS:

What does having a meaningful relationship with others mean to you?

Our ability to engage in meaningful interactions with other people, our surroundings, and everything around us is rooted in our capacity for self-awareness and transcendence.

Which of the following actions is more reasonable?

A. You begin talking to your classmate, telling her about a funny experience you had.

B. You begin talking to a ballpen, telling it about a funny experience you had.

What drives human persons

To interact with their fellow humans in

a more meaningful way?

Recognizing the self in the other

We are able to relate meaningfully with other human beings because we consider ourselves as essentially the same.

Unique relationship between distinct subjects

It refers to the characteristic of human person to engage in a very intimate and personal relationship with others who are different from him/her but who are also like him/her.

Unique relationship between distinct subjects

This is possible because a person has an inner life or interiority – this allows the person to give him/herself to others and also allows the individual to receive others in his/her life and relate with them.

Philosophers identify various

Level of self-other interaction

• Awareness of the existence of the others.
• Awareness of the self as being seen by others. Self consciousness is a defining characteristic of self-other relationship.

Philosophers identify various

Level of self-other interaction

• Awareness of the self in the other. The way we act with other people is often influenced by our ideas of how these people sees us.

An individual presents him/herself in a certain way when dealing with others, we call this seeming. Persons unconsciously/naturally take on roles or act out character when dealing with certain people or situation.

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I-It vs I-Thou

• In the I-Thou encounter, we relate to each other as authentic beings, without judgment, qualification, or objectification. I meet you as you are, and you meet me as who I am. In the I-Thou relationship, what is key is how I am with you in my own heart and mind.
• The I-It encounter is the opposite in that we relate to another as object, completely outside of ourselves.

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“I believe that the key to creating society that is nourishing, empowering and healing for everyone lies in how we relate to one another.”

— Martin Buber, an Austrian born Jewish philosopher

According to Buber, human beings may adopt two attitudes toward the world: I-Thou or I-It. I-Thou is a relation of subject-to-subject, while I-It is a relation of subject-to-object. In the I-Thou relationship, human beings are aware of each other as having a unity of being.

In the I-Thou relationship, human beings do not perceive each other as consisting of specific, isolated qualities, but engage in a dialogue involving each other's whole being. In the I-It relationship, on the other hand, human beings perceive each other as consisting of specific, isolated qualities, and view themselves as part of a world which consists of things. I-Thou is a relationship of mutuality and reciprocity, while I-It is a relationship of separateness and detachment.

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I – IT RELATIONSHIPS

• Treating someone as if they are one-dimensional
• Only focusing on a small part of the person or “surface” quality
• Relating to someone as a stereotype or a label
• Might be based on past experience

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I – IT RELATIONSHIPS

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I – IT RELATIONSHIPS

• You approach people with expectations
• You feel that people should be who you want them to be, think how you want them to think, and act how you want them to act. When they don’t, you get upset.

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I – IT RELATIONSHIPS

• You may see the person as unequal, “other”, or below you.
• Lead to separateness, disconnection, and detachment

ALIENATION – is a person experiencing and adopts negative view. This arises when a person ceases to view the other as a distinct and authentic person and merely considers the other person as a mere object or means to satisfy personal interests.

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I – THOU RELATIONSHIPS

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I – THOU RELATIONSHIPS

• Recognizing the sacredness and spirit in each person
• Treating each individual as a whole person.
• Being with them mindfully in the present moment
• Accepting people as they are; allowing them to be themselves

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TRANFORMING TO I – THOU RELATIONSHIPS

REMEMBER THAT THIS PERSON:

• Has his own thoughts, feelings, wants, and needs
• Has both positive and negative qualities
• Has a history
• Has friends and family
• Wants to be happy and free form suffering

What characterizes a genuine human interaction?

DIALOGUE – a deeper and more substantial interactions and relations with other people. This is made possible when the self realizes that the other is a genuine and unique individual.

DIALOGUE – is an interaction between persons that happened through speech or the use of words, expressions, and body language. Dialogue is not confined to words. Actions, gestures and other expressions may be used to convey a person’s inner life.

What characterizes a genuine human interaction?

When two individuals begin to view each other as an other - that is, truly acknowledge each other’s presence – then that is the beginning of an authentic relationship and a dialogue.

The notion of a dialogue becomes clearer when we reflect on the nature of our conversations with other people.

A dialogue occurs when two persons “open up” to each other and give and receive one another in their encounter. Genuine dialogue occurs when persons are willing to share themselves with one another accepting differences and uniqueness.

SYMPATHY is “feeling with”

and

EMPATHY “is feeling in”

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Characteristic of meaningful and

Genuine human relationship

EMPATHY- our ability to share emotions. This emotion is driven by a person’s awareness that other is a person with thoughts and feelings. It enables us to experience another person’s emotions, such as happiness, anger, and sadness.

Characteristic of meaningful and

Genuine human relationship

AVAILABILITY- willingness of a person to be present and be at the disposal of another.

Characteristic of meaningful and

Genuine human relationship

ETHICS OF CARE- emphasizes the moral dimension of relationships and interactions. People have a moral obligation to respond to the needs of other people; and cannot turn a blind eye on the problem of others.

DISCUSS:

1. How does empathy enable persons to establish genuine relationships with others?
2. Why is alienation a threat to genuine human relationships?

How can philosophy help you

evaluate your relationships with others?

• Acceptance of differences and embracing diversity. We understand that each person is unique, therefore, differences will exist among groups of people.

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Meaningful and beneficial human relationships are founded on the values of acceptance, openness, and respect. As human, we are driven by our shared dignity to treat each other with respect and acceptance.

People with disabilities who become

productive and happy individuals:

HELEN KELLER (1880-1968) American author, political activist, and first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree.

Helen Keller

Young Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan

People with disabilities to become

productive and happy individuals:

Despite of being blind Helen learned to “hear” people’s speech by feeling their lips with their hands. She is proficient at using braille and reading sign language. She eventually learn how to speak.

NICHOLAS JAMES “NICK” VUJICIC (born 1982) Australian evangelist and motivational speaker who was born with phocomelia.

People with disabilities to become

productive and happy individuals:

ROSELLE AMBUBUYOG (born 1980) First visually impaired Filipino to graduate summa cum laude from Ateneo de Manila University in 2001.

People with disabilities to become

productive and happy individuals: