Lesson D: The encounter with Jesus Christ is a call to Discipleship Flashcards
We want to know what it takes to experience the “other” as “the other”
How the experience of “the other” may be needed for the development of self-awareness.
Intersubjectivity or Other-awareness
The idea of intersubjectivity presupposes _______.
human subjectivity
Intersubjectivity refers to the condition of man as a subject alongside other men. It pertains to human relations
True or False
Both are true
Begins from lived experience
The “I” cannot exist in isolation, and always exits alongside other “I’s”
The self always finds its fullness in the existence of other selves
We must withstand the temptation to reduce other people to a means for us to use
Whose Philosophical Anthropology?
Martin Buber’s
“Dialogical” Relationship
I-Thou Relationship
“Thou” is a reducible to certain characteristics
true or false
false
* Thou is NOT reducible to certain characteristics
Is I-Thou views the other as a genuine person capable of feeling the same way as the self
true or false
True
“Monological” Relationship
I-it (Ich-Es) Relationship
Considers the other as a mere instrument to achieve a need
I-it (Ich-Es) Relationship
Reduces the other to an object that is measurable and manipulative
I-it (Ich-Es) Relationship
“Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way”
“All real living is meeting”
“The world’s not comprehensible: through the embracing of one of its beings”
who said these qoutes?
Martin Buber
“The face of the other”
who said this?
EMMANUEL LEVINAS
sometimes capitalized, sometimes not
Usually translates the French word autrui which means “the other person”, “someone else”
(i.e., other than oneself)
Other
By “face” Levina means the _____.
or in french, _____
human face; visage
the first, usual, unreflective encounter with the face is as the living presence of another person and, therefore as something experienced socially and ethically.