Recognising human faces

I’ve been reading some Levinas and Heidegger for philosophy, and a philosopher-friend of mine has been working on a system of thought regarding the question ‘what does it mean to recognize each other as a human being?’.

I’ve put the philosophy section after the jump because it’s quite convoluted and not expressed very well.

Because we can never share the same experience of reality, we often misunderstand each other, thus causing conflict. Honestly, this has been attempted to be explained by so many philosophies: the Hindu Brahman, the Christian ‘sin’, Heidegger’s clearing of being (see below) etc etc. This has even come up in the analytic tradition, the last place I thought I’d find a connection with -shock horror, humans- (forgive my continental biases), Moore’s rejection of Subjectivity talks about humans speaking ‘past each other’ – to meet someone where they’re at, the intersection of realities and understandings is so rare!