INTERSUBJECTIVITY

AS
ONTOLOGY:
THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE
SELF
 Forthis section, Martin Buber’s and Karol
Wojtyla’s views will be used as the main
framework in understanding intersubjectivity.
 Both philisophers were influenced by their
religious background.
 Theybelieved in the notion of concrete
experience / existence of the human person.
 They also think that one must not lose the sight
of one’s self in concrete experience.
 Both
refused to regard the human person as a
composite of some kind of dimensions, such as
animality and rationality.
 For
both views, the human person is total, not
dual.
 ForWojtyla, the social dimension is
represented by ‘We relation’ and for Buber, the
interpersonal is signified by the ‘ I - You relation’
MARTIN
BUBER
MARTIN BUBER
 He is a Jewish Existentialist Philosopher.
 He was born in Vienna and was brought up
in the Jewish tradition.
 In his work I and thou (Ich and Du)(1923), he
conceives the human person in his/her
wholeness, totality, concrete existence and
relatedness to the world.
 Buber’s I-thou philosophy is about the
human person as a subject , who is a being
different from things or from objects.
 Thehuman person experiences his
wholeness not in virtue of his relationess to
one’s self, but in virtue of his relation to
another self.
 Thehuman person establishes the world of
mutual relation, of experience.
 Thehuman persons as subjects have direct
and mutual sharing of selves.
 Thissignifies 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.
 Incontrast, 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).

PRESENTED BY: Perez, Ma. Kassandra A.