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Submitted by Maeganphil2006 on March 19, 2006
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Authentic Relating
(a summary and reflection on the paper: Participation or Alienation)
Summary:
Karol Wojtyla starts by positing the necessity of establishing a pre-understanding of the relation soi-autrui in the study of the difference between participation and alienation.
He then clarifies problem of soi-autrui in that it crosses two cognitive situations. The first dealing with soi (I) in relation to its ontology and concrete action. And the second dealing with the concept of autrui (other) in that there is a world consciousness that includes all peoples and readily presents to I the very concept of another.
Thus when we speak of soi as the I, the two cognitive situations must be considered (consciousness, the real subject who experiences himself and the other). But understanding the problem of soi- autrui necessitates a study of the experience i.e. action or act.
The pope then establishes the concepts of I- self and other.
Consciousness is very much connected to the act in that the former conditions the full manifestation of the I through the latter. However, consciousness alone cannot form the act (conscious activity), there is a need for the will to bring about a conscious action self consciousness coupled by the will constitute self- determination. In here, the act performed reveals the wholeness, originality and uniqueness of every man. Through action the proper I- self emerges wherein man becomes aware of his being subject, the cause of his actions, who actualizes his potentials and who discloses and acknowledges himself as the one who possesses his own self – self- possession.
The concept of other springs from one’s ability in understanding the truth that the other is also made in self-consciousness and self- possession. That the other is a different I. The other is also a neighbor because he is another I. This conviction flows from a subjective participation in humanity...
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