This document discusses intersubjectivity and how people should treat each other as subjects rather than objects. It provides examples of how some people treat others as objects by only seeing them as tools to be used for their own ends. However, humans are not just objects but embodied spirits with feelings. True intersubjectivity requires seeing others as fellow subjects and treating them with mutual respect and openness through genuine communication. The document emphasizes that human life only becomes truly human through relationships and finding meaning in caring for others rather than just oneself.
This document discusses intersubjectivity and how people should treat each other as subjects rather than objects. It provides examples of how some people treat others as objects by only seeing them as tools to be used for their own ends. However, humans are not just objects but embodied spirits with feelings. True intersubjectivity requires seeing others as fellow subjects and treating them with mutual respect and openness through genuine communication. The document emphasizes that human life only becomes truly human through relationships and finding meaning in caring for others rather than just oneself.
This document discusses intersubjectivity and how people should treat each other as subjects rather than objects. It provides examples of how some people treat others as objects by only seeing them as tools to be used for their own ends. However, humans are not just objects but embodied spirits with feelings. True intersubjectivity requires seeing others as fellow subjects and treating them with mutual respect and openness through genuine communication. The document emphasizes that human life only becomes truly human through relationships and finding meaning in caring for others rather than just oneself.
Senior High School Teacher III Sablayan National High School ACTIVITY Break the class into groups of 4 to 5. Assign the one of the following action situations to each group. Each group will come up with an action situation that they will portray through pantomime. The action situation will be discreetly written on a paper, and then submitted to the teacher. Only a group and the teacher should know what the group plans to enact. Action situation should be composed of an actor + object acted on. The action situation should be phrased as follows: Washing laundry (actors action) on the Washing machine (actors object). One member will take the role of the actor; another member will play the role of the object (act like a washing machine. ANALYSIS Let the class hear from the sharing of those who were assigned to play the role of an object. If you were one of them, how did you feel while playing the role? Imagine that this happens in real life that some persons are turned into objects as tools used by others. Do you think they would feel the same way as your classmates did? Why? Why not? Can you give real life examples when persons are turned into objects? Some people treat others as mere objects because they only look at others as bodies like machines. Factory owners do not care if their workers dont get enough sleep or food as long as they meet the quota to be produced for the day. Maids are shouted at, snubbed, laughed at, or made to live in subhuman conditions because their amo only see them as machines that can wash, cook. Prostitutes are not respected because they only viewed as bodies that give pleasure to their clients. The human person is not an object. She only appears to be one because of her body. Her body is what makes her a thing like other things. But you cannot just treat a person as a thing without hurting the persons feelings. This is because the human person also has an inner reality encapsulated in the concept of an embodied spirit. This is the reason why we do not refer to human beings as objects, but as subjects. For this reason, human persons are expected to treat others as fellow subjects and not as objects in service of other subjects. This relationship among subjects is what philosophers call inter-subjectivity Intersubjectivity is a relationship that is supported by genuine communication founded on mutual respect for each other as subjects, and on co-presence the openness of ones presence to the presence of the other. To be, to exist in a human way, it to be with. Intersubjectivity is thus a state in which I recognize my being as a being-with-others. My life is not human if it is centered on itself. Life becomes human, that is, it is humanized, as soon as I de-center myself from myself, when the center of my life is on the welfare of another. Human Living is living of something other than itself (Marcel: 171). Human Living is when I find meaning in others. This is precisely what Jesus Christ, said Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it (Matthew 10:39). Answer the following: Translate the following into our mother tongue: People talking without speaking People hearing without listening What do those lines from The Sound of Silence mean? What kind of relationship is described by the words: How does talking differ from speaking? Hearing from listening? Illustrate with examples from everyday life experience. Between hearing and listening, talking and speaking which do you prefer? Why? Can you describe the people described in The Sound of Silence as so near yet so far? Why or why not?