INTERSUBJECTIVITY

• This perspective defines how one perceives and relates to reality

  Egocentric perspective
• It is the awareness of individuality

  Self
• It is the interchange of thoughts and feelings between two persons as facilitated by intentionality

  Intersubjectivity
• It is the shared awareness and understanding among persons which is evident in social interactions

  Intersubjectivity
• This is the reason why people engage in relationships

  Intersubjectivity
• He offers a distinction between the social and the interhuman: the former refers to the life of a group bound together by common experiences and reactions while the latter refers to the life between and among persons, who are interchangeable and non-objectifiable

  Martin Buber
• It refers to the life of a group bound together by common experiences and reactions

  Communal existence
• Interhuman refers to the life between and among persons, who are interchangeable and non-objectifiable

  A life of dialogue
• He says that human life is a micture of both I-It relationship (monologue) and I-Thou relationship (dialogue)


  Martin Buber
• It is the first obstacle to dialogue and it can be contrasted to the way of being, the duality of which is essential problem of the interhuman

  Way of seeming
• This way proceeds not from an image, but from what one really is; it is spontaneous, without reserve, and natural

  Way of being
• It is the second obstacle to dialogue and it is contrasted to the act of personal making present

  Speechifying
• It is the third obstacle to dialogue and it is contrasted to unfolding or imposing one's self on others, telling them what to do, how they should act


  Imposition
• Buber's I-Thou relationship is 


  dialogical
• It is turning to the partner in all truth, to confirm the other does not mean approval of the other, but the recognition of the other as other

  I-Thou relationship
• Philosophy of Communion


  Gabriel Marcel
• I-Thou vs I-It Relationships

  Martin Buber
• There is this "_" - we go against oppressive objectification or ideologies which suppresses the true identity of human persons

  Dissatisfaction
• There is this "_" - we go against oppressive objectification or ideologies which suppresses the true identity of human persons


  Dissatisfaction
• It means that we have to live our lives worthy enough to be called human persons

  Transcendence
• It is where we come face to face with ourselves and realize we are not just selves who have bodies who have our own bodies

  Inwardly
• Subectivity is Intersubjectivity


  Marcel
• The thing in the world is the ground on which all beings especially us and everything in the universe is anchored

  existence itself
• It does not only mean that we continue to exist with others in this world but that we also feel our presence with each other


  Authentic intersubjectivity
• It is a way of life lived in unconditional love for others.

  Intersubjectivity
• The reason why the world is broken according to Marcel

  No more human touch
• "It is from this very unity and totality that it draws its sinister new power of self-destruction"

  Marcel
• The more broken we become, the more confused we are about our

  true identity
• It is the need to respond immediately


  Urgent
• Craves the possession of a given power and disappears once this power is attained. Another is within possession; another call comes from the innermost being, a call directed inwards (to create)


  Two types of dissatisfactions
• Marcel abhors the kind of transcendence that is rooted in the _


  physical
• Going after __ does not really satisfy the dissatisfied

  material things
• Transcending experiences should be a


  vertical movement
• The urgency is simply for the longing to be what we truly are

  Transcendence
• The need for this presents itself above all, is deeply experienced above all, as a kind of dissatisfaction

  Transcendence
• It is the most primitive existential experience of any person


  body
• The inevitable manner in which we construe the relationship between self and body is to consider the body as an


  instrument
• The body itself seems to be a _ of the self, or of the soul


  utensil
• We will banish ourselves into "_" if we refuse to be who we are and what we are capable of doing


  infinity
• The self as an "__" means that our conscious life, our spiritual life, and our bodily life are equally important to our enjoyment of being


  embodied spirit