Philosophy

• Intersubjectivity


  For one to understand is to understand oneself in front of a text
• Text


  • Necessary for the development of the self
  • Paves the way to discover the worlds
• Realization of the development of the self


  Presupposes that a reader of a text will realize to be a good and responsible person, not only for himself but for others
• You need to understand yourself first before you understand others
• I & It Relationship


  • Treats the person as an object (It)
  • Sees the person not for who they are but in terms of their usefulness
• 1. Thou Relationship


  Presupposes that each participant is concerned for each other and each person turns fully and equally towards the other with openness and ethical engagement
• For Buber, honoring the other not because of its usefulness is of paramount priority and importance
• One becomes a person by engaging or entering into a relationship with a Thou
• Emmanueal Lévinas


  • Emphasized the ethical responsibility we have towards others
  • Suggests encounters with others disrupts our self-sufficiency, instigating a fundamental obligation to address their needs
  • Try to put yourself in one's shoe to understand him or her
  • Responsibility toward others
• Buber and Wojtyla argued in the notion of concrete experience/existence of the human person
• Both contended that one must not lose the sight of one's self in concrete experience
• The human person is a total being, not just a rational animal
• We relations


  • Karol Wojtyla (Saint Pope John Paul II)
  • Action reveals the nature of the human agent
  • Participation is the essence of the human person in which he or she is able to fulfill one's self
  • The human person is oriented toward relation and sharing in the communal life for the common good
  • No human should become an end to one's self as we are accountable to our neighbors as we are to our own actions
• Augustine emphasized that a person can pursue self-development and gain only if it means his or her fellow man can also receive good from his or her actions
• Person with a disability (PWD)


  The term maintains the dignity and value of the person
• Denial -- Isolation -- Grief -- Helplessness


  Negative mindsets of the family and community toward PWDs may increase their poor academic and vocational outcomes
• Parents need to reach the point of constructive action to accommodate the communicative and educational needs of their child with a disability
• Underprivileged sectors of society


  • Deprived through social or economic condition of some of the fundamental rights of all members of a civilized society
  • Lack such rights and advantages and may not have access to healthy food or good medical care
• Dimension of Poverty


  • Income
  • Health
  • Education
  • Empowerment
  • Working Condition
• "Babae" by Inang Laya


  • A song that problematizes the gender role assigned by the social order to women since their childhood
  • Filipina women are not simply oppressed but have actively participated in movements that not only seek empowerment
• Authentic Dialogue


  • Mutual Sharing
  • Mutual Awareness
  • Respect, compassion, and acceptance
  • Creative, poetics and allows humanity to exist
• Martin Heidegger - humankind is a conversation
• All conversations are really one conversation, the subject of which is being
• Conversation is more that just an idle talk but a dialogue. This means that humanity is progressively attuned to communication about being
• Language created human world
• A dialogue is a conversation that is attuned to each other and to whatever they are talking about
• Executive Order 417 mandates 1% budget allocation for PWD programs and provides capitalization for PWD livelihoods and skills training