Intersubjectivity

MAN: A PERSON-WHO-ALWAYS-EXISTS
-WITH-
OTHERS
-IN –
THE WORLD
 Goals:
• Explain the meaning of
Intersubjectivity.
• Demonstrate appreciation for the
uniqueness of others as persons.
• Learn how to develop a healthy
relationship with others.
 Intersubjectivity
MAN: A PERSON-WHO-ALWAYS-EXISTS
-WITH-
OTHERS
-IN –
THE WORLD
 Intersubjectivity
MAN: A PERSON-WHO-ALWAYS-EXISTS
-WITH-
OTHERS
-IN –
THE WORLD
 Sound of Silence
Hello darkness, my old friend In restless dreams I
I’ve come to talk to you again walked alone
Because a vision softly Narrow streets of
creeping
cobblestone
Left its seeds while I was
sleeping ‘Neath the halo of a
And the vision that was street lamp
planted in my brain I turned my collar to the
Still remains within the sound cold and damp.
silence
When my eyes were And in the naked I saw
stabbed Ten thousand people,
By the flash of a maybe more
neon light People talking without
That split the night speaking
And touched the People hearing without
sound of silence listening
 Fools, I said, “You do not know
People writings
Silence, like a cancer, grows.
songs
Hear my words that i might teach
That voices never you
share Take my arms that I might reach
you.”
And no one dare But my words like silent raindrops
Disturb the sound fell
of silence And echoed in the wells of silence.
And the people And the sigh said,
bowed and prayed “The words of the
To the neon God prophets
they made Are written on the
And the sun flashed subway walls
out its warming And tenement halls.”
And the words that it And whispered in the
was forming sound of silence.
Answer the following questions:
1. Translate the following in your mother tongue:
”People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening.”
2. How does talking differ from speaking? hearing
from listening? Give at least one example from
everyday experiences.
3. What kind of relationship is described by the
words/video?
 Intersubjectivity
MAN: A PERSON-WHO-ALWAYS-EXISTS
-WITH-
OTHERS
-IN –
THE WORLD
MAN: A PERSON-WHO-ALWAYS-EXISTS-WITH- OTHERS-
IN –THE WORLD
• Man, who is a person, never reveals
himself in isolation but always in his
togetherness with others.
• Man’s “being-in” cannot be
detached from man’s “being-with.”
MAN: A PERSON-WHO-ALWAYS-EXISTS-WITH-
OTHERS-IN –THE WORLD
• As a person, man is not a “what”
but a “who.”
• Since man is a “who”, man is NOT
an object but a SUBJECT.
• And, since, man is a subject, he,
therefore, is NOT a thing but a SELF
Philosophical Branches:
Existentialism and Phenomenology
- relate the concept of interpersonal relations to
self-awareness and transcendence.
- the individual is primarily aware of
himself/herself, and it is this egocentric
perspective that defines how he/she perceives
and relates to reality.
- this awareness is called “SELF.”
 Existentialist perspective:
• Defines interpersonal relations as
the “self” being aware of “other.”
• “OTHER” – refers to objects outside
of personal experience or the
individual apart from the “self.”
 Existentialist perspective:
The interaction between “self” and the
“other” is related to the philosophical
concept – INTERSUBJECTIVITY.
SELF OTHERS

INTERSUBJECTIVITY
Levels of “self-other” interactions:
I. Awareness of the existence of
the “other.”
II.Awareness of the “self” as
being seen by others.
III. Awareness of the “self in the
other.”
Three levels of relationship or
Intersubjectivity
1. I-It level of Relationship
- capsulizes, more or less, the “being-
for” existence of man and not man’s
“being-with” existence.
- man is treated not as a “who”, a
“subject” and a “self” but as a “what” ,
an object and a thing.
Three levels of relationship or
Intersubjectivity
2. I-He/She level of Relationship
- “I” considers and recognizes the other as a
person.
- Recognizes the needs and rights of the
person.
- “I” treats the “He/She” not as a means to
an end but as an end and value in himself.
Three levels of relationship or
Intersubjectivity
3. I-Thou level of Relationship
- highest level of relationship.
- happens when the “I” and “thou” are
bound together in the context love.
- it points to a singular “I” to another
singular “I”
Three levels of relationship or Intersubjectivity
• I –It
unreciprocated
• I – He/She

• I – Thou reciprocated
“DIALOGUE”