INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY QUIZ#3 REVIEWER
INTRODUCTION
Humans have the natural and universal
tendency to relate, to establish attachments, and
seek close relationships with other people.
Our human nature drives us to reach out
to other people and interact with them in
meaningful ways
HOW DO WE AS HUMAN PERSONS RELATE
WITH OTHERS?
Our ability to engage in meaningful
interactions with other people, our surroundings,
and everything around us is rooted in our
capacity for self awareness and transcendence.
Self awareness and transcendence
enables human persons to establish meaningful
interactions with others.
Before we begin to relate with others, we
must first be aware of Ourselves as rational
individuals capable of determined and
reasonable action.
Interpersonal relations are made
possible when the self becomes aware of the
other, which includes everyone and everything
outside of the self.
WHAT DRIVES HUMAN PERSONS TO
INTERACT WITH THEIR FELLOW
HUMANS IN A MORE MEANINGFUL WAY?
Our human nature not only enables us to
recognize the self that defines our individuality, it
also enables is to recognize that other human
beings also possess a self.
We are able to relate meaningfully with
other human beings because we consider
ourselves as essentially the same. This notion of
RECOGNIZING THE SELF IN THE OTHER is
how philosophers define interpersonal relations.
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INTERSUBJECTIVITY
● Interaction between the self and the
other
● The mutual recognition of each other as
persons.
● Mutual understanding that people share
during communication
● It also carries the meaning of "a unique
relationship between distinct
subjects."
● Refers to the characteristic of the human
person to engage in a very intimate and
personal relationship with others who are
very different but who are also like him or
her.
● This is possible because the person has
an inner life or interiority.
● Allows a person to become closer to
others in many different ways.
● There is also the experience of shared or
"common" knowledge and shared
emotions such as grief, joy, and love.
1. SIMPLE AWARENESS OF THE
EXISTENCE OF THE OTHER
➔ We are aware that there are other
beings unique from us, and that
they exist outside of our own
awareness or perception.
2. Awareness of the self as being seen
by others.
➔ Deeper level of interaction
between the self and the other.
You are as aware of a person's
action as an other.
3. SELF CONSCIOUSNESS IS CONSIDERED
BY PHILOSOPHERS AS A DEFINING
CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SELF OTHER
RELATIONSHIP.
➔ Awareness of a person staring or
minding you will result in a feeling
of self consciousness.
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● THE UNIQUE PHENOMENON OF Whenever a person speaks, he or she

THE HUMAN GAZE. expresses a personal interiority and
➔ Considered a defining communicates this part of himself or herself to
characteristic which sets apart another person. - This is why it's not possible to
human interaction from the have a dialogue with a material object.
interaction of other species.
The notion of a dialogue becomes clearer when
● AWARENESS OF THE "SELF IN THE we reflect on the nature of our conversations
OTHER" with other people
➔ Important element in all other
1. CASUAL ACQUAINTANCES CONVERSATIONS
aspects of interpersonal
➔ discussing news or occurrences.
interactions.

2. CASUAL FAMILY AND FRIENDS

● SEEMING
CONVERSATIONS
➔ The way we act with other people ➔ comfortable discussing more
is often influenced by our ideas of personal issues.
how these people see us. Where
an individual presents A dialogue occurs when two persons "open up"
himself/herself in a certain way to each other.
when dealing with others.
THEN GENUINE DIALOGUE OCCURS WHEN;
● UNCONSCIOUS, NATURAL ACT ON
THE PART OF THE HUMANS Persons are willing to share themselves
➔ Persons take on roles or act out with one another
characters when dealing with
certain people or certain When each individual enters into a
situations dialogue while being aware of each other's
presence as a true person (acceptance of
WHAT CHARACTERIZES A GENUINE each other's uniqueness and differences)
HUMAN INTERACTION?

DIALOGUE
Leads humans to strive to achieve deeper and
more substantial interactions and relations with
other people.

It is an interaction between persons that

happens through speech, the use of words,
expressions, and body language.

It is not confined to words. It becomes a

means by which persons are able to share in
each other's lives.

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