Chapter 6: Intersubjectivity

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means we are beings thrown into the world.

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Dasein

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can be understood as an

environment, situation, world, space, or even objects and people.

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there

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“Dasein is never ‘proximally’ an entity which is free from Being-in, but which sometimes inclines to

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take up a ‘relationship’ toward the world.

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WHO — there are things about human existence that are not controlled by our
free will and intellect and which we cannot fully comprehend.

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Heidegger

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It refers to the conditions given to

us and fixed from without. It means that there are features that are beyond our control.

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factity

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human beings are not only limited to recognizing both things and people but are most essentially capable of

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connecting with those objects and relating to those individuals encountered.

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This means that we do not only recognize the things and the people in
our world but, more so, connect and relate with them.

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Being relational beings

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This refers to a condition of our existence that has been decided or created by us.

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transcendence.

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establishment of meaningful and authentic relationships

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subjects

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suggests either being ready-at-hand or present-at-hand.

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objects

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human beings, as Dasein, pertain to two conditions:

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1. we are being thrown into it with no access to freedom.

2. we must realize that human beings, as subjects, are innately relational beings.

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Since we have the innate tendency to establish relationships with our fellow human beings, we have the capacity to

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transcend our own facticity.

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person. It means that there is no gap

or distance between the body and the subjectivity.

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my body

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If we express ourselves through our embodiment, we cannot be distinguished
from it.

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my body

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(my body) For Gabriel Marcel, intimacy is a moment wherein

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realities are shared

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suggests that people should realize and

consider the bond that exists between the self and the body.

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Intimacy

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There will be no avenue for the self to use or manipulate one’s body because

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there is a recognition that the body is also the person and not an object.

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is understood as the possession of the body. It means that we
own our bodies as we own things.

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Having a body

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We understand our body as a possession because our subjectivity
appears to other people as a body.

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Having a body

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authentic relationships among humans can only be possible

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if we treat each other as subjects and not as mere objects, just like treating our embodiment as a person.

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It is a fundamental notion that human persons are not solitary beings. This means that a person always lives one’s life together with other human beings.

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Intersubjectivity

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In this relationship, a person not only fulfills one’s call to be human to others but,
most importantly, values this kind of relationship.

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Intersubjective

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described as the subject-to-object relationship.

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I-It

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_______, a Jewish existential philosopher, would differentiate it as an ‘I-Thou
relationship,” subject to subject, and “ I-lt relationship,” that is, subject to object.

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Martin Buber

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there is no unity in each other's being but only distance.

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I-It relationship

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is described as the subject-to-subject relationship.

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I-Thou relationship

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This kind of relationship is an | interpersonal relationship.

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Interpersonal relationship

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a relationship is not a meeting wherein one keeps a distance from the other, but an encounter wherein realities are shared and unified.

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I-Thou relationship

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Stated that "If I face a human being as my thou and say the primary word I-Thou to him/her, he/she is not a thing among things and does not consist of things"

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Buber

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violations of our I-Thou relationships.

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Manipulations and violations

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the life of relation.

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dialogue

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defined and understood as disguised dialogue. It is when one insists on talking all by oneself without allowing others to be heard.

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monologue

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As a form of dialogue wherein, an authentic relationship is impossible, what two do not manifest but rather manipulation and abuse reign in monologue?

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respect and mutuality

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described as objective understanding.

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technical dialogue

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because it seeks to achieve a shared understanding and knowledge in both parties but not relationships.

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Technical dialogue

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is commonly understood as a humane dialogue wherein sincerity, presence, sharing, mutuality, availability, and fidelity are manifested. Through this dialogue, all forms of relationship are gradually developed, strengthened, and grounded.

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genuine dialogue

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Buber adds that authentic dialogue is much more essential and sincere in our relationship with the

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eternal thou

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with God, there is no such thing as a

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potential substance of being

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means unchanging | over time. It is calling us to be courageous and persistent in our fidelity while being persevering.

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Constancy

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are manifestations of how | constant we are to our fidelity.

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persenverance and immutability

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Marcel introduced availability, or as he called it

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Disponibilité.

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________ means being present in | all circumstances.

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Availability

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The first act is to commit to the other without _______. The second act is the ________ to that commitment.

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questioning one's future disposition; response of the other person

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is always put into question in a genuine relationship since it requires constancy over time, perseverance, and commitment.

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fidelity

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is a reality wherein one does not only express one's creativity to fidelity but, most essentially, create one's life to meet the demands of fidelity.

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creative fidelity

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"to be disposable is to believe | the other, to place me at her disposal and to maintain the openness of

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Disponibilité.

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consists in actively maintaining ourselves in a state of openness and permeability — open to the influx of the presence of the other"

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creative fidelity

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Creative fidelity is not just about being | committed and disposed to the other but also about having

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gleaming hope toward the relationship | and the other.

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something transcendent that human beings keep.

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Hope

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For | Marcel, it is the final guarantor of fidelity.

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Hope

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It means that we submit everything to a transcendent being | (Buber calls it "Eternal Thod'), hoping that He will be with us in our journey of commitment and fidelity.

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Hope

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The beauty of hope gives us an avenue to

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participate in that intervention and help.

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"Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me"

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Marcel

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In Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, Levinas speaks of ______ as the essential, primary, and fundamental structure of subjectivity

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responsibility

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ordains that the I be responsible for that Other; such is | ordination to goodness.

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face of the other

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When the I recognizes and claims this responsibility as a predetermined morality before ontology, which leads the Ito summon the self to be present, then the responsibility of the Ito the Other will never _______, but a ________

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be a return to the self but a continuous responsibility that is always outside of the self.

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In this situation, the many Other, which Levinas called the ______, is substantially disturbing this intimacy between the land the Other

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third

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Our responsibility's generality obliges us to compare the unique Other with all Others, meaning to say to allow for

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equal treatment and calculation.

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an inescapable and ad infinitum responsibility

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The life of others, the being of others, falls to me as a duty: