Interpersonal relations of "me" with the other "selves": an approach accodiong to the anthropological thought of Zubiri

Abstract

Tha author says that Zubiri's anthropology refers to metaphysics, because human being is a reality essentially opened to himself, to the others and to the world. Man has a special way of knowing things like something «taken for granted», like a confrontation with reality. For that reason things appear to him like realities perceived by intelligence as formalities of reality. Intelligence facilitates man to understand and to feellike a single faculty, whose function is to allow him to apprehend something as real. From this perspective all human action is radically different, because man not only has the capacity to solve his life but to project it developing his possibilities and fulfilling himself through his opening with things and the other «selves». Within this process, man possesses freedom as something essential to decide on his potentialities and to be the owner of the acts of his life. However, the person opening to everything, allows himself to develop solidarity with others like a project of decisions in common, that implies the exercise of freedom to everyone with respect and tolerance.