Chapter 6: Intersubjectivity Flashcards
means we are beings thrown into the world.
Dasein
can be understood as an
environment, situation, world, space, or even objects and people.
there
“Dasein is never ‘proximally’ an entity which is free from Being-in, but which sometimes inclines to
take up a ‘relationship’ toward the world.
WHO — there are things about human existence that are not controlled by our
free will and intellect and which we cannot fully comprehend.
Heidegger
It refers to the conditions given to
us and fixed from without. It means that there are features that are beyond our control.
factity
human beings are not only limited to recognizing both things and people but are most essentially capable of
connecting with those objects and relating to those individuals encountered.
This means that we do not only recognize the things and the people in
our world but, more so, connect and relate with them.
Being relational beings
This refers to a condition of our existence that has been decided or created by us.
transcendence.
establishment of meaningful and authentic relationships
subjects
suggests either being ready-at-hand or present-at-hand.
objects
human beings, as Dasein, pertain to two conditions:
- we are being thrown into it with no access to freedom.
2. we must realize that human beings, as subjects, are innately relational beings.
Since we have the innate tendency to establish relationships with our fellow human beings, we have the capacity to
transcend our own facticity.
person. It means that there is no gap
or distance between the body and the subjectivity.
my body
If we express ourselves through our embodiment, we cannot be distinguished
from it.
my body
(my body) For Gabriel Marcel, intimacy is a moment wherein
realities are shared
suggests that people should realize and
consider the bond that exists between the self and the body.
Intimacy
There will be no avenue for the self to use or manipulate one’s body because
there is a recognition that the body is also the person and not an object.
is understood as the possession of the body. It means that we
own our bodies as we own things.
Having a body
We understand our body as a possession because our subjectivity
appears to other people as a body.
Having a body
authentic relationships among humans can only be possible
if we treat each other as subjects and not as mere objects, just like treating our embodiment as a person.
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.
Intersubjectivity
In this relationship, a person not only fulfills one’s call to be human to others but,
most importantly, values this kind of relationship.
Intersubjective
described as the subject-to-object relationship.
I-It
_______, a Jewish existential philosopher, would differentiate it as an ‘I-Thou
relationship,” subject to subject, and “ I-lt relationship,” that is, subject to object.
Martin Buber
there is no unity in each other’s being but only distance.
I-It relationship
is described as the subject-to-subject relationship.
I-Thou relationship
This kind of relationship is an
interpersonal relationship.
Interpersonal relationship
a relationship is not a meeting wherein one keeps a distance from the other, but an encounter wherein realities are shared and unified.
I-Thou relationship
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”
Buber
violations of our I-Thou relationships.
Manipulations and violations
the life of relation.
dialogue
defined and understood as disguised dialogue. It is when one insists on
talking all by oneself without allowing others to be heard.
monologue
As a form of dialogue wherein, an authentic relationship is impossible, what two do not manifest but rather manipulation and abuse reign in monologue?
respect and mutuality
described as objective understanding.
technical dialogue
because it seeks to achieve a shared understanding and knowledge in both parties but not relationships.
Technical dialogue
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.
genuine dialogue
Buber adds that authentic dialogue is much more essential and sincere in our relationship with
the
eternal thou
with God, there is no such thing as a
potential substance of being
means unchanging
over time. It is calling us to be courageous and persistent in our fidelity while being persevering.
Constancy
are manifestations of how
constant we are to our fidelity.
persenverance and immutability
Marcel introduced availability, or as he called it
Disponibilité.
________ means being present in
all circumstances.
Availability
The first act is to commit to the other
without _______. The second act is the ________ to that
commitment.
questioning one’s future disposition; response of the other person
is always put into question in a genuine relationship since it requires
constancy over time, perseverance, and commitment.
fidelity
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.
creative fidelity
“to be disposable is to believe
the other, to place me at her disposal and to maintain the openness of
Disponibilité.
consists in actively maintaining ourselves in a state of openness and permeability — open to the influx of the presence of the other”
creative fidelity
Creative fidelity is not just about being
committed and disposed to the other but also about having
gleaming hope toward the relationship
and the other.
something transcendent that human beings keep.
Hope
For
Marcel, it is the final guarantor of fidelity.
Hope
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.
Hope
The beauty of hope gives us an avenue to
participate in that intervention and help.
“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”
Marcel
In Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, Levinas speaks of ______ as the essential, primary, and fundamental structure of subjectivity
responsibility
ordains that the I be responsible for that Other; such is
ordination to goodness.
face of the other
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 ________
be a return to the self but a continuous responsibility that is always outside of the self.
In this situation, the many Other, which Levinas called the ______, is substantially disturbing this intimacy
between the land the Other
third
Our responsibility’s generality obliges us to compare the unique Other with
all Others, meaning to say to allow for
equal treatment and calculation.
an inescapable and ad infinitum responsibility
The life of others, the being of others, falls to me as a duty:
