RLG303H1 Lecture Notes - Intersubjectivity
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The need for a compassion that retains the experience of the other as their own experience. ^not one which re-ascribes or re-defines the suffering of others. Not one which assumes that we can ever fully feel what other are feeling. Due to different life experiences we can never put ourselves in someone else"s shoes. Compassion we are suffering on behalf of another. ^when one"s perception of suffering over one"s own compassion for others overtakes that very compassion. Distinctions between suffering with, suffering for, and suffering from. Philosophical and religious examinations of suffering and evil may provide resources for reflection on the religious problem of suffering (143). Rejection of absolute objectivity (which is obvious), and absolute subjectivity. The notion that everything is subjective does not adequately address the influence we have on one another. Our identities, who we are, is always shifting. We are not the same after our experiences in the world.