INTRO TO PHILO

faces of intersubjectivity

Module 2

This lesson covers the faces of intersubjectivity which must be realized by human beings in order to accept differences thereby promoting a progressive community that is free from impartiality and racism. It also introduce ways to determine the situations of the underprivileged individuals in our society so that each of us should realize a social obligation necessary for promoting mutual understanding.

Intersubjectivity

We cannot speak of the human person without implying and drawing from his situatedness within the world, and this situatedness always involves other subjects such as he himself is

the social dimensionsof the self

Martin Buber and Karol Wojtyla’s philosophical views will be used as the main framework in understanding intersubjectivity. Both philosophers were influenced by their religious background. The believed in the notion of concrete experience/existence of the human person. They also think that one must not lose the sight of one’s self in concrete experience (C. Ramos, 2016)

Both refused to regard the human person as a composite of some kind of dimensions, such as animosity and rationality. For both views, the human person is total, not dual. For Wojtyla, the social dimension is represented by “We relation” and for Buber, the interpersonal is signified by the “I-You relation”.

MARTIN BUBER

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is a Jewish existentialist philosopher. He was born in Vienna and was brought up in the Jewish tradition. In his work I and thou, he conceives the human person in his/her wholeness, totality, concrete existence and relatedness to the world.

Buber’s I-thou philosophy is about the human person as a subject, who is being different from things or from objects. The human person experiences his wholeness not in virtue of his relation to one’s self, but in virtue of his relation to another self. The human person establishes the world of mutual relation, of experience.

In contrast to realm of meeting and dialogue, Buber cites the I-it relationship. The I-it relationship is a person to thing, subject to object that is merely experiencing and using; lacking directedness and mutuality (feeling, knowing, and acting).

Appreciate the Talents of Persons with Disabilities

(PWDs)

PWD

The process of suspecting, recognizing, and identifying the handicap for parents with PWD will include feelings of shock, bewilderment, sorrow, anger, and guilt. Whether these pertain to deafness or spirited children, denial for instance, is universal. During diagnosis, isolation of effect occurs when the parents intellectually accepts deafness of their child. The loss should require mourning or grief; otherwise, something is seriously wrong.

There are many categories of PWD. To mention some, there are the hearing impaired, diabetic, asthmatic, or cystic fibrotic persons. In a certain study, mothers of asthmatic children scored consistently more positively than any other groups of mothers.

On the other hand, spirited kids and children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) are different (R. Abella, 2016)

A spirited perceptive child will notice everything going on around her but will be able to process the information quickly and will be able to select the most important information to listen to. An SDHD child will find it difficult to focus or complete a task, despite her best efforts.

UNDERPRIVILEGED SECTOR OF SOCIETY

Dimensions of Poverty

The notion of poverty is multi-dimensional. A number of different concepts and measures of poverty relate to its various dimensions. Each of these dimensions has common characteristic of representing deprivation that encompasses:

• Income

• Health

• Education

• Empowerment

• Working Condition

The most common measure of the underprivileged is income poverty, which is defined in terms of consumption of goods and services. There is lack of goods and services. There is growing recognition that income poverty is not the only important measure of deprivation. Poor health is also an important aspect of poverty. Globally, millions die due to Aids, Ebola virus, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as number of infant deaths from largely preventable causes of diarrheal disease. Health deprivation had become focal point for the underprivileged.

rights of women

In 1712, Jean Jacques Rousseau said that women should be educated to please men. Moreover, he believes that women should be useful to men, should take care, advise, console men, and to render men’s lives easy and agreeable. Rousseau also influenced the development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought.

Authentic Dialogue that is Accepting Others regardless of Individual Differences

We are a conversation

In his essay, Martin Heidegger says that humankind is a conversation. Conversation is more than an idle talk but a dialogue. (C. Ramos, 2016)

This means that humanity is progressively attuned to communication about being. Language as one of human possessi0ns, creates human world. Language is a tool for communication, information, and social interaction. However, language can also be amazement.

Authentic Dialogue that is Accepting Others regardless of Individual Differences

In a conversation, there could be a “stammer”, which is trying to express the unnameable. For Heidegger, a conversation attempts to articulate who and what we are, not a particular individuals but as human beings. We are human beings who care about more than information and gratification.

For Buber, a life of dialog is a mutual sharing of our inner selves in the realm of the inter human. Between two persons is a mutual awareness of each other as persons; avoiding objectification. Being is presenting what one really is, to present to the other one’s real self. Personal making entails the affirmation of the other person who is unique and has distinct personality. There is the acceptance of the person unfolding the other actualize himself (C. Ramos, 2016)

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