Lesson 6 Flashcards
Refers to the human experience and meaning of the interhuman encounter. It opens up to the nature of commitment, the value of others, and the reality of love as the highest form of recognition
Intersubjectivity
Highest form of recognition
Love
Can only be performed in freedom.
Love
Is grounded in the willingness of the individual to share and fully realize the meaning of life by being with someone
True love
The interhuman relation speaks of two beings in the?
I-Thou relation
In this relation, one hopes to make the other complete
I-Thou relation
In this relation, things are of value because of the purpose that we put into them.
I-It relation
It is purely empirical
I-It relation
He writes that, “The essential problem of the sphere of the inter-human is the duality of being and seeming.”
Martin Buber
Buber explains that the reality of human existence proceeds from two things
What one really is and what one wishes to seem
For Buber, ____ are possessors of value.
persons
To be precise, the human person is a ___ in itself
Value
To ___ the human being is to value the human being in his or her being
love
Finds itself intertwined in social and political relations.
Intersubjectivity
Our social existence is grounded in the basic idea of what
Mutuality
Our _______ ______ is grounded in the basic idea of mutuality
social existence
The name of the epoch-making essay of Charles Taylor
The Politics of Recognition
He said that the basic idea of “democracy has ushered in a politics of equal recognition which has taken various forms over the years, and has now returned in the form of demands for the equal status of cultures and genders.”
Charles Taylor
Who wrote “The Five Faces of Oppression”
Iris Marion Young
Iris Marion Young wrote what
The Five Faces of Oppression
The ____ ____ ____ as proposed by Young, attempts to explain the reality of structural injustice
Politics of difference
What are the five faces of oppression
Exploitation, powerlessness, marginalization, cultural imperialism, and violence
He accuses the whole of Western philosophy as a form of egology
Emmanuel Levinas
According to Emmanuel Levinas, the whole of Western Philosophy is a form of what
Egology
By ___, he mains that metaphysics is simply concerned with the ego or self
Egology
He explains that “in the thought of Levinas, the term totality refers to a fundamental perspective wherein the I is at the center”
Levino Garcia
it is at the center
“I”
I reduces the ___ to itself
other
For him, the original encounter with the face is that of infinity
Levinas
Is that movement from the “I” to the “Other”
Infinity
He explains that “face is ethical because it is simultaneously a demand, a begging command and plea.”
Garcia
Refers to a term used by Emmanuel Levinas, which means that to be human is go be ultimately responsible for the other
Infinite Responsibility
According to him, the self’s moral responsibility for the other is concrete because the other, the face, is concrete
Garcia
He reminds us that the responsibility for the other is a movement from “a home that we inhabit toward that place”
Levinas
He argues that true love is not a feeling.
M. Scott Peck
Are our temporary reaction to transitory moments
Feelings
Says that “it therefore makes sense to describe love and hatred as emotions, but not as feelings”
Scheler
Cites the experience of making a promisd
Marcel
Only ____ ___ can make promises
human beings
The man is a mere ___ to this obligation
slave
Marcel means the _____ between two beings
communion
Is a matter of maintaining an image
constancy
Is grounded in the temporariness
compromise
Ultimate act of human freedom
True love
