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26 Cards in this Set
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self identity
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both a real, and metaphysical fact.
Real, in that it is an inner, lived intuitive experience. Metaphysical, in that it is a distinct, yet inseperable reality. |
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2 Important aspects of a person
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Substantial part- that which exist in itself, and not in others
Relational part- that which exists to others, and is active and self communicating. |
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dyadic nature of human beings
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extrovert (towards others, communal) and introver (in itself)
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to "be" fully is
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to be substance in relation
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Incommunability
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The individual, inalienable, and inseperable part of a human
-THat which seperates a human from others -enables a human to live subjectively |
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communicable portion
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that which a human has in common with others
-enables a human to live in community |
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presence
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Natural sacrimentality in which nature is shocked through with holiness
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Man's relation with nature
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The physical world, a world of consistency, cosmos, and on the threshold on language
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man's relation with humans
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enters into language, the psychial world, eros, and a world of sensibility
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man's relation with divine beings
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a world of validity, logos, without language, yet creates it, and noetic world
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Life with Nature
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Four empedoclean elements (earth, fire, water, and air) the subthresholds of relation
Botanical entities- the presholds of relation Zoological elements- the threshold of relation |
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Hartshorne
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Said that we could have an I thou relationship with trees because they have souls and exist as a part of an animate soul
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Unity model
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We can have an I thou relationship with a tree and other parts of nature because they are one, which leads to a relationship. THis ultimately leads to patheism, a mystical union, or immersion, which is rejected by Buber
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Rejection of the union model
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Buber says that just because we relate to something doesn't mean we are in union with them
Relationship rests on two contentions 1. relation is only possible between human-nature 2. there are different degrees of mutuality. |
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Kant
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- humans should never be treated simply as a means to an end, but rather as an end
-buber extended this to nature |
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I-It
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an object which is recognized from experience/use
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I-THou
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that to which I respond my whole being as you
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I-it
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abstract, meditated, past-future, one sided, leads to poverty and the collection of material things, ego, partial involvement
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I-Thou
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TOtal involvement, spontanteous, present, exclusivity, mutual, lead to mutuality and reciprocity, person, and grow in abssubstatiality
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Socrates
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solidarity is not detatchment from earth, but a dialogue with humans
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Goethe
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perfect example of I in communion with nature
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Jesus
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The solidarity of relation
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Napolean
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contrasted to Jesus in that he said I without entering into relation
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Two types of Absorption
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Unification-A person is united with God, and gives up their will to him
elimination of the I Identification- Same as above, but the person freely choses to anihhilate their will |
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two types of solitude
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1. That from which someone has turned
2. The toward which someone has turned |
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"The true constitution of a person is the relations which they make"
" A person is not a person until they enter into relation" Problem? |
Ignores the solitude and selfhood of a person
Excludes a person who is unable to enter into a inter-personal relationship with others (fetus, comatose) |
