Man in Dialogue

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Man in Dialogue

• Dominique Dubarle
• Martin Buber
• Dr. Ramon C. Reyes

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Characterizing dialogue

• It is more than two persons talking to each other
• Silence can be a dialogue
• So do actions (i.e. gestures, pantomimes, among
  others

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Dialogue by Dominique Dubarle (
Dialogue and its Philosophy)

• 2 Kinds
• 1. dialogue with the natural aim of unanimity
  which aims at intellectual agreement on the basis
  of evidence open to all and makes it possible in
  principle to establish true knowledge
• Ex. Scientific inquiry

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2. dialogue of convictions and their
confrontations which involves philosophical,
religious, and political convictions defined a
human conversation, where spiritual convictions
confront one another.
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3 main objectives of dialogue of conviction

• Remove grave matters of dispute
• Define in common those areas of agreement
• Exchange resources of vitality and progress

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Martin Buber

• The first requirement of a genuine dialogue is
  listening, being open to the world, observing,
  being aware of everything including flowers and
  animals, not just persons.
• The signs of a dialogue are whatever
  happens/occurs to us which are everywhere but we
  ignore them

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• God is He Who Speaks each moment
• We should respond (answer)when someone speaks to
  us as this is the essence of Responsibility

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Bubers 3 Kinds of Dialogue

• Genuine dialogue which establishes a mutual
  living relationship
• Technical dialogue for objective understanding
• Monologue disguised as dialogue like in a debate
  or conversations where nothing is to be learned
  or nothing is given

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Dialogue vs. Monologue

• Dialogue is a turning towards the other a
  relationship between the I and the Thou an
  openness and a movement of love
• Monologue/ reflexion is withdrawing from
  another person where dialogue becomes fiction

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Dr. Ramon C. Reyes(from Edmund Husserls The
Elements of Society)

• Communication is that which primarily constitutes
  society
• At the bottom of all social life lies what he
  calls community of communication through
  discourse or the reciprocal act of addressing and
  listening and responding.

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3 Activities required in Communication

• Reciprocal appresentation
• Bilateral consciousness of reciprocal
  appresentation
• Reciprocal understanding of mutual awareness and
  interest of each other

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• Language- also called discourse it is the
  deliberate expression and transmission of each
  others thoughts.
• The deliberate and manifest will to exchange one
  anothers thoughts, desires and feelings is the
  critical element of real communication

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• Forms of Discourse- Gestural, oral, or written
• Correlative moments (1) act of manifestly
  addressing the other and (2) act of receiving the
  address

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• Response to the content (language/address) of
  communication can either be positive or negative.
  Thus, it is only upon mutual reception of each
  others address that conflict or disagreement can
  happen.
• Note that disagreement or conflict does not
  necessarily mean failure of communication.
  Communication perfectly took place, only the
  response is negative.

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• Communication strengthens the bond between
  interlocutors ( speaker/listener) and there could
  be conflicts between interlocutors without
  necessarily breaking the effective bonds of
  communication
• The bond established by communication/language is
  the most fundamental social bond according to
  Husserl.

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• Overlapping or coincidence of consciousness-
  achieved in every single act of communication
  where speaker and listener participate. The
  subjectivities of communication thus suggests the
  relationship of the I and the Thou is
  established and such subjectivity then acquires
  the status of a person.
• Through communication complementary perspectives
  of the world is provided us, complementary
  perspectives of one collective experience

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• Transcendental intersubjectivity/transcendental
  We
• posited by Husserl as that which signify that
  purely subjective aspect, the condition of
  possibility of all social life created by no less
  than Communication

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