PHILOSOPHY - Lesson 6

• Intersubjectivity is the interchange of thoughts and feelings, both conscious and unconscious, between two subjects facilitated by empathy. - Edmund Husserl
• Inter = between, among
• Subject = a conscious being
• Ways of Approaching the Other:

  Seeming - approaching the other based on the image they want to impress on them.
• Ways of Approaching the Other:

  Dialogue - interaction between people that happens through the use of words, expressions, and body language.
• Levels of Intersubjectivity

  Empathy

  Availability

  Ethics of Care
• Empathy - the ability to feel for others.
• Availability - the ability to help others.
• Ethics of Care - moral obligation to care for the needing.
• Martin Buber

  I-It - pronoun used to identify an object, relationship because of benefitting from the other party.
• I-Thou - pronoun used to determine a person, see people as equal.