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Interhuman: "To Be, Is To Relate With Others"

The document discusses two realms of human existence and relationships: the social realm and the interhuman realm. The social realm involves relating as part of a group, while the interhuman realm involves relating to others as unique individuals. It argues that modern society focuses too much on the social realm and forgets the importance of interhuman relationships. It also discusses two types of interhuman relationships - "being," which involves genuinely relating to others, and "seeming," which is superficial. To truly fulfill human existence, one must engage in genuine dialogue and interhuman relationships that treat others as individuals rather than as objects or means to an end.

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Interhuman: "To Be, Is To Relate With Others"

The document discusses two realms of human existence and relationships: the social realm and the interhuman realm. The social realm involves relating as part of a group, while the interhuman realm involves relating to others as unique individuals. It argues that modern society focuses too much on the social realm and forgets the importance of interhuman relationships. It also discusses two types of interhuman relationships - "being," which involves genuinely relating to others, and "seeming," which is superficial. To truly fulfill human existence, one must engage in genuine dialogue and interhuman relationships that treat others as individuals rather than as objects or means to an end.

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Interhuman

Sem. Jeremias F. Cusay Jr.

“To Be, is to Relate with Others”

The world is being divided into two realms namely the social realm and the interhuman
realm. So to speak, people are also being classified, either they belong to the former wherein
their individual existence is enclosed in a group or they belong to the latter wherein one becomes
aware of the other as a unique individual. But nowadays, it is usual for us to be in the social
realm and forget the importance of the interhuman.

These realms are associated to our human existence. According to Martin Buber there are
two different areas of human relationship. The social relationship, which means that our
relationship between someone is a relationship in a membership in a group. Man’s existence can
be seen in a particular group but it does not mean that he has an existing personal relationship
with the other members. Man can only practice his existence with the group outside of this he
will never exist that is why in the social realm, they have to maintain a ‘collective attitude’ so
that the group will continue to exist. On the other hand, the interhuman relationship, which
means it is a dialogical relationship between persons. Dialogical is an implementation that
someone is confronted by the other. It is a conversation or a participation of the other, it means “I
become aware of the other as a subject and not just a mere object” or in other words we treat
people as a ‘Thou’ and not an ‘It.’

In our human existence we have two kinds of interhuman relationship: The Being and
Seeming. Being means that we must act and think what we really are. We show ourselves to
others without reserve, communicate to others spontaneously and there must be no words and
actions that are pretentious. Unlike being, seeming means no conversation or conversing but only
speechifying. The dialogue with others is not spontaneous but a prepared speech. To be a being
means to be a teacher because we unfold our real self and help assisting other’s growth. We
unfold the potentialities of the people. We never impose ourselves for we disregard other’s
uniqueness. Today, I can see people who are choosing to be in seeming and not in being. They
choose to impose themselves rather than unfolding their real self and other’s growth. They treat
others as a means (It) and not as an individual unique subject (Thou). If we continue to be like
this we will never attain the purpose of our human life or we will never fulfill our human
existence.

It is only through genuine dialogue that we can attain and fulfill our human existence. We
must relate ourselves to others. It is grounded in spirit, truth and it must be turning of the being
and not seeming. We must accept each other as a partner in dialogue. We must resist temptation
(Semblance). We must always remember that attaining this can give us fruitful and successful
dialogue.

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