Intersubjectivity

1.
INTENSITY
How strong are your emotional
reactions? Do you find yourself
becoming easily upset or more
low key?
Answer between 12345 (1 = mild

reaction, 5 = intense reaction)
2. PERSISTENCE
If you are involved in an activity
and you are asked to stop, can you
do so easily? When a task is
frustrating, do you find yourself
letting go easily or pushing to
continue?
Answer between 12345
(1 = easily let go, 5 = “lock in”, don’t let
go)
3. SENSITIVITY
How aware are you of slight
noises, emotions, differences in
temperature, taste, and textures?
Do you react easily to certain
foods, tags in clothing, or irritating
noises?
(1 = usually not sensitive, 5 = very
sensitive)
4. PERCEPTIVENESS
How keenly aware are you of
people, colors, noises, and objects
around you? Do you frequently
forget to do what you were going
to do because something else has
caught your attention?
(1 = hardly ever notice, 5 = very
perceptive)
5. ADAPTIBILITY
Do you quickly adapt to
changes in your schedule or
routine? How do you cope with
surprises?
(1 = adapt quickly, 5 = slow to adapt)
6. REGULARITY
How regular are your eating
times, sleeping period, and
other bodily functions?
(1 = regular, 5 = irregular)
7. ENERGY
Are you always on the move
and busy or quiet? Do you need
to run and exercise in order to
feel good?
(1 = quiet, 5 = active)
8. FIRST REACTION
How do you usually react to
new places, people or activity?
(1 = jump right in, 5 = reject at first)
9. MOOD
Do you feel mostly happy
compared to the analytical and
serious?
(1 = usually positive, 5 = more serious
and analytical)
SCORE
9 – 18
(Cool or Calm)
19 – 28
(Very lively or Spunky)
29 – 45
(Spirited)
MARTIN BUBER (1878 –1965)
 was a prolific author, scholar,
literary translator, and
political activist whose
writings—mostly in German
and Hebrew—ranged from
Jewish mysticism to social
philosophy, biblical studies,
religious phenomenology,
philosophical anthropology,
education, politics, and art.
INTERSUBJECTIVITY
as Ontology : The
Social Dimensions of
the Self
INTERSUBJECTIVITY
 in philosophy, psychology,
sociology, and anthropology, is
the psychological relation
between people. It is usually used
in contrast to solipsistic individual
experience, emphasizing our
inherently social being.
 sharing the subjective states by
two or more individuals. (Scheff
2006)
SUBJECTIVE
 based on feelings or opinions
rather than facts.
 relating to the way a person
experiences something in his
or her own.
INTERSUBJECTIVITY OR
OTHER-AWARENESS
1. We want to know what it takes

to experience the “other” as “the
other.”
2. How the experience of “the

other” may be needed for the
development of self-awareness.
Other
human being, an object

outside of you
The Other
human person, same being,

subject
WHAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP
ARE YOU IN?
THE “I – THOU”,
AND “I – IT”
RELATIONS
Martin Buber presented his
philosophy through a dialouge, a
philosophical theory that showed
a particular quality of interaction,
where the parties involved
develop a connection or
relationship.
“I – IT” RELATIONSHIP
 “I” – is the subject
 “It” – is a person treated as an
object
 depicts separateness,
disconnectedness, and
detachment.
EXAMPLE:
“I – THOU” RELATIONSHIP
 “I” – is the subject
 “Thou” – is another subject
 it is a relationship of mutual
and reciprocal connection.
EXAMPLE:
SAINT POPE JOHN PAUL II OR KAROL
WOJTYLA
 was born in Poland. He was
elected to the Papacy on October
16, 1978 (264th pope) and was
considered a great pope (88%)
during his lifetime. He was also an
architect of Communism’s demise
in Poland. In his encyclical letter,
Fides et ratio, he criticized the
traditional definitaion of human as
“rational animal.” He maintains
that the human person is the one
who exists and acts (conscious
acting, has a will, has self-
determination).
 For Wojtyla, action reveals the
nature of the human agent.
Participation explains the essence
of the human person. Through
participation, the person is able to
fulfill one’s self. The human person
is oriented toward relation and
sharing in the communal life for
the common good.
As St. Augustine of Hippo
said, “No human being should
become an end to him/herself.
We are responsible to our
neighbors as we are to our
own actions.”
We participate in the
communal life (We). Our
notion of the “neighbor” and
“fellow member” is by
participating in the humanness
of the other person (I-You).
The neighbor takes into
account humanness.
 Buber’s I-Thou philosophy is about
the human person as a subject, who
is a being 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
establishes the world of mutual
relation, of experience.
 The human persons as subjects
have direct and mutual sharing of
selves. This signifies a person-to-
person, subject-to-subject relation
or acceptance, sincerity, concern,
respect, dialog, and care. The
human person is not just being-
in-the-world but being-with-
others, or being-in-relation.
In contrast, to realm of
meeting and dialog, Buber
cites the I-It relationship. This
I-It relationship is a person to
thing, subject to object that is
merely experiencing and using;
lacking directedness and
mutuality (feeling, knowing,
and acting).
PEER DISCUSSION
 In your life as Grade 11
learners, what kind of
relationship that you are into?
 How this relationship helps
you to grow as a whole human
person?

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