philo q2 c6 Flashcards
jewish existentialist philosopher
work of I and Thou (Ich and Du), conceives the human person to his/her wholeness, totality, concrete existence and relatedness to the world
Martin Buber
the human person experiences his wholeness not in his virtue in relation to one’s self, but in his virtue in relation to others
I-You Relation
person to thing, subject to object that is merely experiencing and using; lacking directedness and mutuality
I-It Relation
264th pope, in his letter Fides et Ratio, criticized the traditional definition of human as “rational animal”
the human person is the one who exists and acts
Karol Wojtyla or St. Pope John Paull II
“No human being should become an end to him/herself, we are responsible for our neighbor as we are responsible of our own actions”
St. Augustine of Hippo
interchange of thoughts and feelings, both
conscious and unconscious, between two
persons or ‘subjects,’ as facilitated by empathy
Edmund Husserl
“the realm of existence to which
the preposition ‘with’ properly
applies
Gabriel Marcel
Human living” is “living of
something other than itself
Gabriel Marcel
The Other is “rigorously the other” that
is, far more radically different than we
would normally appreciate and accept
in our everyday lives
Emmanuel Levinas
is a denial of the other’s difference,
“the denial of the otherness of the other.”
Totalization
Over him I have no power. He escapes
my grasp…The Other remains infinitely
transcendent, infinitely foreign…
Emmanuel Levinas
The other is the “stranger who disturbs being at home with oneself”
Emmanuel Levinas
The Face resists possession,
resists my powers. In its epiphany,
in expression, the sensible, still
graspable turns into total
resistance to the grasp.
Emmanuel Levinas
