LESSON 2

• INTERSUBJECTIVITY OF HUMAN BEINGS

  • presupposes a human being's connectivity with other
  • we share the same situations and create shared meanings which are the bases for our collective actions and beliefs
• HUMAN BEINGS IS A SOCIAL BEING

  • creates their world to establish relationships with other created things to survive
  • communication or dialogue among humans is a necessity for a meaningful existence
• HUMAN BEING IS BORN AND CREATES THEMSELVES IN SOCIAL INTERACTION

  • the existence of a person is the consequence of social interaction between two unique individuals
  • they together strengthen interaction through constant communication
• THE DIMENSIONS OF A NONRELATIONAL SELF

  • The Self in Isolation
  • The Self in the Realm of Pretentions
  • The Self in the Realm of Manipulations
  • The Self in the Realm of Selfishness
• The Self in Isolation

  • they do not recognize the existence of other human beings
  • human consciously leaves the communicative situation
  • cannot attain full consciousness of themselves in isolation
• The Self in the Realm of Pretentions

  • human pretends to be another person to be accepted by others
  • when human relates with another in deception, the content of communication is not the true self but the seeming and imagined self
• The Self in the Realm of Manipulations

  • human sees other as a mere thing or "it"
  • does not recognize the very being of the other
  • controls others as an object
• The Self in the Realm of Selfishness

  • "I" is the center of the relationship and sees only itself as the basis of truth and social existence
  • blinds a person from seeing others as a source of unique values that can possibly enrich their being
• The Human Beings as Being-in-dialogue

  • Self-consciousness and Dialogue
  • Selfhood and Dialogue
  • Freedom and Dialogue: Unfolding of the Self
  • Truth and Dialogue: Making Present
• Self-consciousness and Dialogue

  • self-consciousness begins with the consciousness of another's consciousness communicating each other in a vocative situation or in a dialogue
  • continuous dialogue between "i's" leads to the establishment of unity of consciousness that pervades in the dialogue
• Selfhood and Dialogue

  • selfhood is the individuality, self-being, self-realization and well-being
  • every experience that unfolds in the dialogical situation becomes a tangible expression of self; dialogue fosters selfhood
• Freedom and Dialogue; Unfolding of the Self

  • FREEDOM: human becomes conscious of themselves
  • it affects something in the human being if it is expressed in a dialogical context
  • human freedom can only find its true meaning in relation to the freedom of another human being
• Truth and Dialogue: Making Present

  • truth about one's self-being is always relational, and it is unveiled through dialogical situations or communicative manifestation
  • they makes present the truth of their self-being and own world