Modes of the social

Social being can be experienced:

  • From within/participatorily as a We — to which I am subject and reflected to myself, faithfully;
  • From within/participatorily as a They — to which I am subject but from which I am alienated and reflected to myself, unfaithfully;
  • From without/objectively as an Us — to which I belong, but seen reflected, at a distance, in the eyes of Them, unfaithfully;
  • From without, as a Them — to which I do not belong, which I/We see distantly and directly, unfaithfully.

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