Second Person Experience

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Stump uses second person experience method on her defence on suffering to attain a union with God and others. The second-person experience requires mutual closeness, a closeness and an openness with the other. Only when two people come to surrender in this way, there will be an interaction between them. They share the story of life, the authentic experience of suffering as part of human existence, the disharmony of suffering and moral demanded as the story of Job in the Bible. In this way human life-stories come to be woven together , be reflected, be debated, be protested even to God because all are part of human sincerity to God. Humans’ honesty in expressing their genuine story of life in a second person experience could be seen as an authentic theodicy before God. Here, it can be understood that suffering provides a context for this sort of second-person experience to occur and it opens a road to have union with God and others.
How can this claim be argued? The human suffering is not quite solved by the series of empathic attitudes. However, desire for internal integration or what Aquinas means by self-love could lead one to its …show more content…
On Aquinas views, every human being is made in the image of God and is the child of God, so that the goodness of God is reflected in every human person. Consequently, the proper object of love also includes a human being. On Aquinas' views, then, love is primarily the love of persons…… The end of the love of persons – that is, the ultimate thing toward which love is directed – is union with God shared in the union with other human beings”. Love, therefore, consists of two interconnected desires: the desire for the good of the beloved, and desire for union with the beloved

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