HOW DO

YOU DEFINE
“HUMAN
BEING?”
Answer the following as
honesty as you can and
learn more about your
temperament and
sensitivity in dealing with
others. Your scores will
be interpreted by your
teacher
Based on the activity, the
leaners need to analyze the
following questions?
How do you find the activity?
How do you find the results of
the activity?
What is the impact of this
activity in knowing the
differences of the individual?
6.1 To realize that
intersubjectivity requires
accepting differences and not
to impose on others
6.2 To appreciate the talents
of persons with disabilities
and those from
underprivileged sectors
INTERSUBJECTIVITY AS
ONTOLOGY: THE SOCIAL
DIMENSIONS OF THE
SELF
MARTIN BUBER
KAROL WOJTYLA or
SAINT POPE JOHN
PAUL II
BOTH VIEWS, PERSON IS
TOTAL , NOT DUAL
WOJTYLA – The social
dimension is represented by
“We relation”
BUBER – the interpersonal is
signified b the “I-You relation”
MARTIN BUBER
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),
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.
The human person experiences
his wholeness not in virtue of
his relation to one’s self, but in
virtue of his relation of another
The human person experiences
his wholeness not in virtue of
his lesson to one’s self, but in
virtue of his relation to another
self.
The human person establishes
the world of mutual relation of
experience
This l-lt relationship is a
person to thing, subject to
object that is merely
experiencing and using
lacking directedness and
mutuality (feeling, knowing,
and acting)
SAINT POPE JOHN PAUL II
or KAROL WOJTYLA
Born in Wadowice, Poland
Elected to the Papacy on
October 16, 1978 (264 th

pope) and was considered a

great pope during his lifetime
He was also an architect of
Communism’s demise in
Poland.
In his encyclical letter,
Fides et ratio, he criticized
the traditional definition of
human as “rational animal”
He maintains that the
human person is the one
who exists and acts
(conscious acting, has a
will, has determination)
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.
The human person is oriented
toward relation and sharing in the
communal life for the common
good.
As St. Augustine of Hippo
said “No human being
should become an end to
him/herself. We are
responsible to our
neighbors as we are to our
own actions”
We participate in the
communal life(We). Our
notion of neighbor and
fellow member is by
participating in the
humanness of other
person (I-You).
There is apprehension
on the group-oriented
approach of the Filipino
that might hamper the
individual’s initiative and
responsibility
It is contended that the
individual should be
disciplined from within rather
than fear from authority
figure.
Discipline and responsibility
should be inculcated
especially through education.