VALUES ED

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
• The human person is a being not in isolation but in communion with others. And being in communion with others mean the human person interacts with The Others. As the saying goes, “No man is an island.”
• Intersubjectivity can be understood either as a personal relationship between two subjects (not objects).
• Martin Buber categorizes the relationship as I - Thou relationship. Simply put, this kind of relationship is not like parasitism wherein only the other species benefit while the other is harmed, it transcends mutualism where bot species benefit from each other.
• This transcendence in the I - Thou relationship can be described as EMPATHY.
• Through empathy, the self becomes aware and attentive and listens intently (BEING WITH) to what the other feels and is thereby able to project oneself and feel what the other feels.
• Intersubjectivity It is a kind of relationship wherein the subject is aware of the presence and existence of the other subject, not as a means to an end but as a fellow human.
• Transcendence BEING WITH follows communion, interaction, and communication with others. BEING WITH follows sensitivity to the needs and desires of the others.
• Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human... Anyone who either cannot lead a common life or is self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ~ Aristotle, Politics
• Service

  Etymology

  SERVIR which means “to do duty

  toward, offer, provide with...”

  SERVIRE which means figuratively

  “be devoted.”
• Therefore, a condition in which an individual surrenders his personal liberty and or his or her course of action or way of life to the will of another person.
• We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• True virtuous service is found only where the one who is to be served has the right to be served and the one who serves does so freely.