Abstract

RENDON ARROYAVE, Carlos Emel. Fichte- G. H. Mead: the order of practical intersubjectivity. Estud.filos [online]. 2012, n.46, pp.89-112. ISSN 0121-3628.

This paper conducts a comparative analysis of the fundamental concepts of ''self-consciousness'' of J. G. Fichte and G. H Mead. This analysis seeks to demonstrate that the two concepts converge in shaping an idea of the self-conscious subject in which the inter-subjective interaction is at the base of the condition of possibility of the ''I'' (Fichte) or ''self'' (Mead). This demonstration requires that the models of inter-subjectivity underlying the respective notions of self-awareness, represented, in the case of Fichte, in the theory of ''exhortation'' and, in Mead, on the theory of ''role-taking'' be made explicit. This analysis seeks to illustrate that both notions describe a practical idea of inter-subjectivity under the rules of meaning present both models, i.e., by the attitudes and behaviors that are required of subjects for any successful inter-subjective relationship. This semantic rule allows one to arrive at the ultimate meaning that both ideas of self-awareness encompass: that it is, for both thinkers, a phenomenon possible only by the social mediation that precedes it and in which it is originally immersed.

Keywords : Self-awareness; inter-subjectivity; recognition; interaction; communication.

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