![]() ![]() In the discourse of philosophy, the term Otherness identifies and refers to the characteristics of Who? and What? of the Other, which are distinct and separate from the Symbolic order of things from the Real (the authentic and unchangeable) from the æsthetic ( art, beauty, taste) from political philosophy from social norms and social identity and from the Self. The condition and quality of Otherness (the characteristics of the Other) is the state of being different from and alien to the social identity of a person and to the identity of the Self. The Constitutive Other is the relation between the personality (essential nature) and the person (body) of a human being the relation of essential and superficial characteristics of personal identity that corresponds to the relationship between opposite, but correlative, characteristics of the Self, because the difference is inner-difference, within the Self. In phenomenology, the terms the Other and the Constitutive Other identify the other human being, in their differences from the Self, as being a cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person as acknowledgement of being real hence, the Other is dissimilar to and the opposite of the Self, of Us, and of the Same. ![]() The founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, identified the Other as one of the conceptual bases of intersubjectivity, of the relations among people. ![]()
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