Unit 6: Intersubjectivity Lesson Notes PDF

Unit 6: INTERSUBJECTIVITY 1 Lesson 1: Accepting Me, Accepting You Intersubjectivity o Mans’ being with others; accepting others and their differences. ▪ Some people treat others as mere objects because they only look at others as bodies like machines. ▪ The human persons...

Unit 6: INTERSUBJECTIVITY 1 Lesson 1: Accepting Me, Accepting You Intersubjectivity o Mans’ being with others; accepting others and their differences. ▪ Some people treat others as mere objects because they only look at others as bodies like machines. ▪ The human persons is not an object. She only appears to be one because of her body. Her body is what makes her thing like other things. 3 Intersubjectivity ▪ But you can not just treat a person as a thing without hurting the person’s 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. 4 Accepting Me, Accepting You ▪ Acceptance means understanding that there are aspects of your life that you can and cannot change ▪ Accepting yourself means realizing that you are a unique human being 5 The Positive Side of Me Accepting who you are as an individual with moral potential begins with evaluating how you think about yourself and your abilities. 6  Things I Things I can cannot Control Control 7 Unit 6: INTERSUBJECTIVITY Lesson 2: Accepting Others is Not to Impose on Others Harm Principle A theory by British Philosopher John Stuart Mill that state that a government or society does not have the right to prevent people from actions unless the actions are harmful to others in Society. Example: Society should arrest the murderer because he has harmed others. 9 Freedom of Life Plan – freedom to pursue life goals, but it is not absolute Harm Principle Example: Selling poison should require a physician’s note Drunkenness can harm your dependants. 10 Principle of Paternalism ▪ Paternalism comes from the Latin pater, meaning to act like a father, or to treat another person like a child. ▪ In modern philosophy and jurisprudence , it is to act for the good of another person without that person’s consent, as parents do for children 11 Paternalistic Leader ▪ Acts as ‘father figure’ ▪ Makes decision but may consult ▪ Believes in the need to support staff Example of Paternalism in everyday life are laws which require seat belts, wearing helmets while riding a motorcycle and banning a certain drugs. 12 Legal Moralism The view that the law can legitimately be used to prohibit behaviours that conflict with society’s collective moral judgement even when those behaviours do not result in physical and psychological harms to others. 13  Paternalism Legal Moralism Decided by the State but we elect Decided by majority legislators that pass these laws that Morals/Positively protect; uses a majority Paternalism/Negatively Perceived Perceived Who is the Social Fear of Control by the State: - Big Brother Syndrome Majority to tell me to… Ex: Perception of the Seat Belt Law Who is the State to tell me to… Thus, legal moralism implies that is permissible for the state to use its coercive power to enforce society’s collective morality. 14 Unit 6: INTERSUBJECTIVITY Lesson 3: Accepting People for What They are is Loving Them Basic Elements of Love ▪ Care – Love implies care is most evident in a mother’s love for her child. ▪ Responsibility – often meant to denote duty, something imposed upon one from the outside. ▪ Respect – the concern that the other person should grow and unfold as he is. ▪ Knowledge 16 “ CARE, RESPONSIBILITY, RESPECT AND KNOWLEDGE are mutually interdependent. ▪They are a syndrome of attitudes which are to be found in the mature person; that is , in the person who develop his own powers productively, who only wants to have that which he has worked for , who has given up narcissistic dreams of omniscience and omnipotence, who has acquired humility based on the inner strength which only genuine productivity can give. 17