A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF MARTIN BUBER’S NOTION OF INTER-SUBJECTIVITY, A PROBLEM SOLVING TOOL TO SENSELESS KILLINGS WITHIN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN KENYA
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2022-11-11
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Tangaza University College
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Martin Buber’s notion of inter-subjectivity and its application in providing a solution to senseless
killings within social interactions in Kenya is the main theme of this paper. This paper will
investigate intercommunal conflicts, ethnic politics and toxic marriage relationships as the cause
of senseless killings and tackle the impacts and effects resulting from this pre-mature deaths.
Following the denotation of Philosophy as the love of wisdom. This paper equally examines the
view that, man is that being whose characteristic act, is not only to be conscious of being, but that
being who goes out freely to will the being and well-being of another person. That is, person’s
sense of being, feelings and actions. Man is a subject who can recognize, acknowledge and
emphasize the subject of another as to take up the stance of tolerating the other’s own subjective
viewpoint, thus Aristotle’s popular dictum that man is a social animal. The study considers how
peace and reconciliation is attained through the understanding of intersubjective relations, which
is achieved through accepting thyself and infinite responsibility to the Thou. Additionally, the
study explores the meaning of intersubjectivity according to different philosophers such as Bernard
Lonergan, Martin Heidegger, and Gabriel Marcel with the aim of bringing peace and reconciliation
among people. Unlike other sciences, this study will employ analytical method; which has always
been at the heart of philosophical method to examine the problem of senseless killings in Kenya.
Moreover, the paper will employ reflective method of philosophy to evaluate the necessary ideas
from life experiences, books and internet sources. The paper employs conceptual analysis in
analyzing concepts and scrutinizing the understanding they refer to and what they represent.
Nonetheless, the expository method will also be used to evaluate the data with the aim of arriving
at its conclusion, and most importantly providing a solution. By use of Martin Buber’s views this
paper is important because it is meant to provoke an individual to appreciate social interactions in
life as an approach to a deeper inspection of conscience which should steer to a positive growth in
sighting reality as a gift and accepting life as a fortune reward.
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A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF MARTIN BUBER’S NOTION OF INTER-SUBJECTIVITY, A PROBLEM SOLVING TOOL TO SENSELESS KILLINGS WITHIN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN KENYA