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......
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