8: Intersubjectivity Flashcards
Subjectivity + objectivity
Inter-subjectivity
Refers to the own interpersonal or personal understanding of a thing
Subjective
Shared understanding and influence by various personal understanding or interpretation to establish new truth or meaning
Inter-subjective
Involving or occurring between separate conscious mindsq
Intersubjectivity
Term used to represent the psychological relation between people
Intersubjectivity
Usually used in contrast to solipsistic individual experience, emphasizing our inherently social being
Intersubjectivity
We are always in relation with others- anchoring our personhood to the principles of interconnectedness
MAN is a Rational Being
We influence others in our daily interaction to which these others make us what we are and we make others what they are
Communal Beings
Independence of the mind from the body; formation of an internal and an external world
Cartesian Dualism
If I am conscious that I am existing, and the world outside me is also existing—can I simply conclude that other persons are conscious as well?
Rene Descartes
Descartes belief in the perception of the senses of man
FALSE
The only thing certain according to Descartes
One is existing as a thinking being
Study of that which appears
Phenomenology
Influenced by the Cartesian Dualism
Husserl’s Phenomenology
Claim that the world is nothing but the world of our conscious experience
Husserl’s Phenomenology
Result of Husserl’s transcendental idealism of phenomenology
Solipsism
Etymology of Solipsism
Latin: “solus” - alone
Latin: “ipse” - self
Considers that the self alone is the only thing certain and the only basis of reality
Solipsism
A consequence of intersubjective relations
Self-recognition
Achieved through our relationship with others
Self-Consciousness
Only ones capable of attaining full-consciousness
Human Beings
Our experience of self-consciousness
Experience of Desire
Experience of Lack
How can we attain full self-consciousness
Recognition by other self-conscious subjects
a product of intersubjective relations which involves mutual recognition among the conscious subjects
Self-Recognition
One of our natural desires
To be recognized
What comes prior to the notion of self
Others
Product of our relationship with others
(Idea of) Self
Jewish philosopher who formulated the existential concept of “I-Thou” and “I-It” relationships
Martin Buber
Can only realize itself in the face of the other
I
3 CATEGORIES OF MODES OF RELATION
- I-I Type of Relationship
- I-It Type of Relationship
- I-Thou Type of Relationship
Aims for the other to be transformed into his likeness
I-I Type of Relationship