Intersubjectivity

of
Human Beings
Intersubjectivity
✢ In philosophy it is the psychological
relation between people. It is usually
used in contrast to solipsistic
individual experience, emphasizing our
inherently social being.

✢ Intersubjectivity presupposes human

being's connectivity with other human
beings. It means that we share the same
situations wherein we can create shared
meanings. These meanings become bases for
Continuous sharing of meaning leads to
open communication of myself to the
other. The unveiling of myself to other
human beings leads me to a deeper
knowledge of myself: self-knowledge
towards the manifestation and realization
of my selfhood.
Human Being is a social being
✢ A human being creates their world to
establish realtionship with other created
things and has to establish relationship with
the environment for him/her to survive.

✢ Moreover, since a human being is endowed with

reason, they have to establish relationship
with other human beings. This relationship
transforms both the environment and the human
beings.
Open communication or vocative situation or dialogue
among human beings is an encounter of unique persons
in a concrete context or situations in the community.

Since communication is a necessity towards

intersubjectivity, it also becomes a means towards
meaningful existence. It is through constant
communication that one can assert one's existence.

One's existence is manifested through the existence of

others. The existence of each person is irreplacable.
One cannot replace the existence of the other for it
is unique for each person.
✢ Dialogue imposes itself as the way by which
they achieve significance as social beings.
Thus, it is an existential necessity.

✢ It is a dialogue between or among thinking

and acting persons who continously unveil,
discover, and create themselves. The content
of such dialogue is not only external things
they have experienced, but everything
concerning each peron's being.
 Human being is born and creates
himself/herself in social interaction
✢ The existence of human being is the
consequence of social interaction
particularly between two unique individuals.
They together strenghten this interaction
through constant communication. From such
communication, they establish communion of
lives that leads to the establishment of
family where basic interactions are
realized.

✢ Such communicative interaction becomes a

matrix in which each person participates,
adopts and absorbs the values, system,
beliefs and world-view that pervade and
harmonize among the individuals in the
The social interaction among the members of the family
can be concretely experienced in the Filipino family
spirit of “sakop”
In which it reveals the mechanisms of Filipino family
in establishing wider family relations which result to
extended family ties.

In such communicative situation or dialogue in the

family, every member projects the perennial values,
beliefs, and the world view of the family.

Each person carries the whole being and collective

consciousness of the family.