Intersubjectivity

INTRODUCTION TO
THE PHILOSOPHY OF
THE HUMAN PERSON:
INTERSUBJECTIVITY
EN GR. EFRY L J HON D. REY ES
INTERSUBJECTIVITY
✓It refers to shared meanings construed by people in their
interactions with each other.
✓It is the philosophical concept of the interaction between
“self” and the “other.” It is the mutual recognition of each
other as persons.
✓It refers to the shared awareness and understanding among
persons. It is made possible by the awareness of the self and
the other.
EDMUND HUSSERL
✓Intersubjectivity, a term originally coined by the
philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), is most
simply stated as the interchange of thoughts and
feelings, both conscious and unconscious, between
two persons or “subjects,” as facilitated by empathy.
✓He believes that intersubjectivity is more than just
shared understanding, but it is the capability to put
oneself in the place where the other is.
CHARACTERISTICS IN HUMAN
RELATIONS
✓EMPATHY
✓AVALABILITY
✓DIALOGUE
EMPATHY
✓The ability to share emotions. This emotion is
driven by a person’s awareness that the other is
a person thoughts and feelings.
✓It enables us to experience another person’s
emotions, such as happiness, anger and sadness.
✓Sympathy is “feeling with” while empathy is
“feeling in”
AVAILABILITY
✓The willingness of a person to be present and be at disposal
of another.
DIALOGUE
✓An interaction between persons that happen
through speech, expressions and body language.
✓It is not confined to words alone, actions,
gestures and other expressions may be used to
convey a person’s inner life.
✓It occurs when two persons “open up” to each
other and give and receive one another in their
encounter.
CONFUCIUS (551-479 B.C.E)
✓One of the main ideas of Confucianism is Ren or
“human-heartedness” or “benevolence.”
✓This means Confucian thinking on
intersubjectivity is practical humanism.
✓There is an emphasis on human actions in
sociality.
✓He calls every man to love the other through
actions, not through thought.
MARTIN BUBER (1878-1965)
✓Jewish philosopher who introduced the “I-Thou”
and “I-It” relationships to embody his philosophy
of intersubjectivity.
✓I-It relationship is when we treat other people
into the status of an object.
✓I-Thou relationship is when we treat another as
a subject with inner life. It is a kind of human
relations that genuine sharing of one another
takes place.
KAROL WOJTYLA (1920-2005)
✓The human person is one who acts consciously,
has a will and has self-determination.
✓For him, 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.
✓For him, the social dimension is represented by
“We relation.”
APPRECIATING
PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES (PWDs)
AND
UNDERPRIVILEGED
SECTORS OF THE
SOCIETY
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PWDs)
✓According to the United Nations (UN) Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the term “persons with
disabilities” is used to apply to those persons who have long-
term physical, psychological, intellectual, or sensory
impairments which in interaction with several unreasonable or
discriminatory barriers may obstruct their full and active
participation as equal members of the society.
HELLEN KELLER (1880-1968)
✓American author, political activist
✓First deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor’s
degree
✓Anne Sullivan – Hellen’s mentor who was
visually-impaired as well.
✓Published her autobiography, The Story of My
Life
NICHOLAS JAMES “NICK” VUJICIC
(BORN 1982)
✓Australian evangelist and motivational speaker
who was born with phocomelia, a condition in
which a person is born with no arms or legs.
✓Founder of Life Without Limbs, a non-profit
organization and ministry.
ROSELLE AMBUBUYOG (BORN 1980)
✓First visually-impaired Filipino to graduate
summa cum laude from Ateneo de Manila
University in 2001.
✓Despite her handicap, she was a consistent
academic honoree-valedictorian (elementary &
high school)
✓Product and support manager at Code Factory,
the world’s leading provider of software that
allows the visually-impaired to access mobile
devices.
UNDERPREVILEGED SECTORS OF THE
SOCIETY
✓ The underprivileged is being described as the group of
people that is suffering from different forms of social
deprivation such as denial of the enjoyment of similar
level of comfort and/or fundamental rights as most of
the members of a civilized society due to several
economic and social circumstances.
✓ This group is less in terms of material possessions and
basic social benefits, like education and health services,
in comparison to most of the people in a certain society.
SOCIETY
✓ Furthermore, this group of individuals is facing various
dimensions of poverty, such as income poverty, health
deprivation, human rights violations, gender inequity, and
many more.
✓ These dimensions have incapacitated many members of the
human society like women, children, and the LGBT
community, wherein all are classified as underprivileged.
SOCIETY
✓ The marginalized sectors, which include jeepney drivers,
farmers, fisherfolks, and many more, are also considered
as underprivileged.
✓ Marginalized sectors are the groups of individuals that
are experiencing the so-called marginalization, which is
the act of downgrading a person, a class of people, or a
concept to an insignificant, secondary, or powerless
situation in a society.
SOCIETY
✓ Globally, women and children are being subjected to
oppression and different forms of exploitation, such as
prostitution and pornography that assault human dignity
and violate human rights.
✓ They have turned into slaves of these criminal activities
because of different social and economic conditions like
poverty and lack of opportunity.
SOCIETY
✓ The members of the LGBT community are also victims of
different types of violence. Many of them are experiencing
numerous adverse treatments like bullying, discrimination,
physical violence, and even sexual assault because of their
sexual orientations and gender identities.
SOCIETY

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