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    INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

    LESSON 6: INTERSUBJECTIVITY
    INTERSUBJECTIVITY
    • Shared awareness and understanding among persons.
    • It is made possible by the awareness of the self and the other.
    • A term originally coined by the philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)
    • It is most simply stated as the interchange of thoughts and feelings, both conscious and unconscious, between two persons or
    “subjects,” as facilitated by empathy.
    • Intersubjectivity refers to the sharing or mutual understanding of subjective experiences between individuals
    Inter – among and in between
    Subjectivity - Subjective experience of humans. Individual experiences and perspectives that shape how we understand ourselves and
    highlights the uniqueness of each person's viewpoint

    ASPECTS OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
    How does our intersubjectivity define our interactions with other persons?
    1. Empathy
    • Ability to share emotions.
    • Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings, thoughts, and perspectives of another person. It involves not only
    recognizing what someone else is experiencing but also feeling a similar emotional response to their situation.
    • Compassion
    2. Availability
    • Willingness of a person to be present and be at the disposal of another.
    • Refers to the state of being present, accessible, and ready to provide support, assistance, or attention when
    needed. It involves being physically and emotionally present for others, making oneself approachable and open to
    communication, and offering one's time and resources to address the needs of others.
    • Readiness
    3. Ethics of Care
    • Believes that people have a moral obligation to respond to the needs of others.
    • Encourages individuals to extend help to people in need most especially the vulnerable.
    • Moral responsibility

    Alienation - A state where a person ceases to view the other as a distinct and authentic person.
    • The person considers others as merely objects or means to satisfy personal interests or desires.
    • Dehumanization

    Forms of Alienation
    1. Prejudice - Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
    2. Discrimination - The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race,
    age, or sex.
    3. Sexism - Discrimination, typically on the basis of sex.
    4. Stereotyping - An over-generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about
    every person of a particular group
    5. Marginalized - treated as insignificant or peripheral.
    6. Underprivileged - not enjoying the same standard of living or rights as the majority of people in a society.
    7. Superiority Complex - An attitude of dominance
    8. Inferiority Complex - Feelings of not measuring up to standards

    Accepting Other People’s Differences


    • Diversity makes a person human. It makes the world a wonderful and fascinating place to live in.
    Dialogue - A deeper and more genuine interaction between persons.
    • Dialogue happens when two persons truly acknowledge each other’s presence and treat each other as equals.
    Tolerance - A respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of
    being human. (UNESCO’s 1995 Declaration of Principles on Tolerance)
    - Openness

    • Dialogue and tolerance are musts in the quest for accepting other people’s differences.
    • By engaging in meaningful dialogue, one will be able to accept another’s individuality openly without asking the latter to conform
    to his/her culture, beliefs, and traditions.
    • One must be tolerant enough to accept the fact that there will always be people in the world that will have a different view and a
    different perspective of things.

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