Intersubjectivity_Part II.pptx PHILOSOPHY

7. Martin Buber is a Jewish
existentialist philosopher.
He was born in Vienna and
was brought up in the Jewish
tradition. In his work l (1923),
he conceives the human
person in his/her wholeness,
totality,
concrete existence, and
relatedness to the world.

8. Martin Buber's is about the human person as a subject, who is a
being different from things or objects. The human person experiences
his wholeness, not in virtue of his relation to one's self, but virtue of
his relation to another self. The human person establishes the world of
mutual relation, of experience.
In contrast, to the realm of meeting and dialog, Buber cites
the . This is a person to a thing, subject to an object that is
merely experiencing and using; lacking directedness and
mutuality (feeling, knowing, and acting).

9. Saint Pope John Paul II or
Karol Wojtyla was born in
Wadowice, Poland. He was
elected to the Papacy on
October 16, 1978 (264th pope)
and was considered a great
pope (88%) during his lifetime.
He was also an architect of
Communism's demise in
Poland. In his encyclical letter,
criticized the traditional
definition of the
human as a "rational animal.”