INTERSUBJECTIVITY

How do you define a "human being"?

6.1 Intersubjectivity Requires Accepting
Differences and Not to Impose others
• Though we are part of our society, we are still different
individuals living in this society.
• Each of us will have different appearance or points of view.
• Labels could be negative or limiting. You may be called
"impatient," "whiny," or "stuborn." Nevertheless, we could go
beyond the labels, as humans we are holistic.
• As humans, we are to be regarded in our totality. Thus, we can
redesign the labels to something new and exciting.
• If the negative labels can be contagious, so can the positive.
INTERSUBJECTIVITY AS ONTOLOGY: The Social
Dimensions of the self

Martin's Buber's and Karol Wojtyla's views will be used as

the main framework in understanding intersubjectivity. They
are both influenced by their religious backround.
They believed in the notion of concrete experience/exixtence
of the human person. Both refused to regard the human
person as a composite of some kind of dimensions, such as
animality and rationality.
• Both philosophers views that the human person is total,
not dual.
• For wojtyla, the social dimension is represented by"we
relation";
• and for Buber, the interpersonal is signified by the"I-You
relation."
Saint Pope John paul II or Karol Wojtyla
• Was born in Wadowice, Poland.
• He was elected to the papacy on October 16, 1978 (264th
pope) and was considered a great pope (88%) during his
lifetime.
• In his encyclical letter, fides et ratio, he criticized the
traditional definition of human as " rational animal."
• The human Person is the one who exists and acts (
conscious acting, will, self-determination).
• Action reveals the nature of the human agent.
• Participation explains the essence of the human person.
Martin Buber

• A jewish existentialist philosopher..

• I-thou philosophy is about the human person as a
subject, who is a different from things or from
objects..
• The human person experiences his wholeness not
in virtue of his relation to one's self, but in virtue of
his relation to another self.
• The human person is not just being-in-the-world
but being-with-others, or being-in-relation.
6.2 Appreciate the Talents of Persons with Disabilities
(PWDs) and those from the Underprivileged Sectors of
Society and Their Contributions
A. On PWDs
The process of suspecting, recognizing, and identifying the
handicap for parents with PWD will include feelings of shock,
bewilderment, sorrow, anger, and guilt.
Feeling of impotence or questioning "why me?"are some
feelings of ambivalence regarding a child's condition. Some
parents turn to religion, and consider "heaven sent blessing in
disguise." Additional reactions include fear of the future, when
parents worry about how the disability of the child will affect
his/her productivity, or become a lifelong burden. Realization
and grief can blind parents to their child's uniqueness.
• There are many categories of PWD(persons with
disabilities).
-hearing impaired
-diabetic
-asthmatic
-cystic fibrotic persons
A study in North America shows that 50% of deaf children
read less than the normal children. On the other hand,
spirited kids and children with ADHD ( Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder) are different.
B. On Uderprivileged Sectors of Society

Dimension of Poverty
The notion of poverty is not one-
dimentional; rather it is multidimentional. A
number of different concepts and measures
of poverty relate to its various dimensions.
• Income
• Health
• Education
• Empowerment
• Working condition
C. On the Rights of Women

BABAE

Kayo ba ang mga Maria Clara

Mga Hule at mga Sisa
Na di marunong na lumaban?
Kaapiha'y bakit iniluluha?
Mga babae, kayo ba'y sadyang mahina?

Kayo ba ang mga Cinderella

Na lalake, ang tanging pag-asa?
Kayo nga ba ang mga Nena
Na katawan ay ibinebenta?
Mga babae, kayo ba'y sadyang pang-kama?
Ang ating isip ay buksan
At lipuna'y pag-aralan ,
Ang nahunog ninyong isipan
At tanggaping kayo'y mga libangan
Mga babae, ito nga ba'y kapalaran?

Bakit ba mayroong mga Gabriela

Mga Teresa at Tandang Sora
Na di umasa sa luha't awa?
Sila'y nagsipaghawak ng sandata
Nakilaban, ang mithiin ay lumaya.
Bakit ba mayrong mga Lisa
Mga Liliosa at mga Lorena
Na di natakot makibaka
At ngayo'y marami nang kasama?
Mga babae, ang mithiin ay lumaya!
 Jean Jacques Rousseau said that women should be
educated to please men.
 Rousseau, believes that women should be useful to men
, should take care, advise, console men, and to render
men's lives easy and agreeable.
 Rousseau, also influenced the development of modern
political, sociological, and educational thought.
 Mary Wollstonecraft, in Vindication on the Rights of
Women(1782), argued that such education would
produce women who were mere propagators of fools.
 She believes that women must be united to men in
wisdom and rationality.
 Society should allow women to attain rights to
philosophy and education given to men.
 Wollstonecraft, women should not just to be
valued until thier beauty fades; it is the fate of
the fairest of flowers to be admired and pulled
to pieces by the careless hand that plucked.
 For Wollstonecraft, if men would snap women's
chains, they would find women more observant
dauthers, more affectionate sisters and
faithfaithfu wives, more reasonable mothers and
better citizens.
6.3 the Authentic
Dialog that is
Accepting Others
Regardless of
Individual Differences
“WE ARE A CONVERSATION”
By: MARTIN HEIDEGGER
• According to him, humankind is a
Conversation. Conversation is more than an
idle talk but a dialog.
• language, as one of human possession
creates human world.
• A dialog is a Conversation that is attuned to
each other and to whatever they are talking
about.
• For Heidegger,all conversations are really one
Conversation, a subject of which is being(maybe
God, tao YHWH).
• A conversation which he envisages is creative,
poetic and deep that allows humanity to exist as
more than entities.
• In a conversation, there could be a "stammer",
which is trying to express the unnamable.
• For him, a conversation attempts to articulate
who and what we are, not as particular
Individuals but as human beings.
• According to him, a life of dialog is a mutual
sharing of our inner selves in the realm of
the interhuman.
• Between two persons is a mutual
awareness of each other as persons;
avoiding objectification.
• Being is presenting what one really is, to
present to the other one's real self.
• Personal making entails the affirmation of
the other as a person who is unique and
has distinct personality
• I-thou relationship.
An authentic dialog
entails a person-to-
person, a mutual
sharing of selves,
acceptance and
sincerity.
• I-You relationship.
Refers to the
interpersonal which
fulfills and actualizes
oneself.
6.4 The talents of
PWDs and
Underprivileged
Sectors of Society
PWDs (Persons With Disabilities)
• As of 2014, the National Statistics Office
estimated that about 1.44 million Filipinos
have some form of disability in the
employable 15-64 yrs old age bracket.
• Executive Order 417. Mandates all National
government agencies and state-run
corporations to allot at least one percent of
their annual budget for programs that will
benefit the sector.
• EQ 417 addresses the need for Government
to provide capitalization for PWDs livelihood
activities.
• The country has enough laws to protect
PWDs, but in reality these are hardly
implemented.
• Disability is considered a development issue
because of its relation to poverty.
• Poverty may increase the risk of disability.
• In relation to poverty, human
trafficking has become a form of
modern-day slavery.
• Pope Francis calls this as "crimes
against humanity"
• This is what Buber calls as I-it
relation, where other human being
irperceived as an object rather than
as human being.