SELF-RECOGNITION AND RECOGNIZING OTHERS

Question 1

Self - consciousness can never be
achieved in

Answer 1

isolation

Question 2

People whose world revolves around themselves. The aim is for the other
to be transformed into his likeness. They talk to other people but they never develop interest
in them. They can’t simply find anything appealing in others.

Answer 2

“I-I” Encounter

Question 3

Develop interest in others but treats them as an object - an It.

Answer 3

“I-It” Encounter

Question 4

Special relationships which we can never apply to everyone we
encounter. Quite difficult as it requires effort from the “I”. here are people who treat other
people genuinely as persons. The I treats the person as a Thou -as another person who is
different from the I: one who may possess a different set of interests, visions, beliefs, value
system, and characteristics.

Answer 4

“I-Thou” Encounter

Question 5

is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. The central structure of an experience is its intentionality, its being
directed toward something, as it is an experience of or about some object.

Answer 5

PHENOMENOLOGY

Question 6

Talking to other persons does not immediately qualify as a dialogue. In fact, in
many conversations among people, what really transpire are mere monologues.

Answer 6

DIALOGUE

Question 7

The I-I relation is basically a speech. It does not require an other
for it to proceed. The I never really hears what the other is saying because it never
wants to listen.

Answer 7

“I - I” Encounter -

Question 8

is open to listening but precisely as an It, an object that needs
to be addressed and understood as a thing and not as a person.

Answer 8

“I-It” Encounter

Question 9

Accepting the otherness of the other allows us to enter into a
dialogue-into an exchange. Because the other presents itself as a free individual with
its own independent consciousness, we await for it to reveal itself.

Answer 9

“I-Thou” Encounter

Question 10

We see other beings like us, and they have bodily expressions and dispositions
just like ours; thus, we can imagine what the other is experiencing if we put ourselves into
their own place.

Answer 10

empathy

Question 11

We have this experience not because we can imaginatively transfer the
consciousness of the other into our consciousness-which is what empathy does. We are
being called to be responsible in the face of the other because we substitute ourselves for
the other.

Answer 11

responsibility