“I am the Other” (M. Heidegger and F. Fedier)

Abstract

The article attempts to reveal the implicit connections between the ideas of F. Fedier’s essay
“A friend’s voice” and Heidegger’s philosophy. The phenomenon of friendship is interpreted in the
context of the question of being. The nature of the self is double; duplicity is its dimension, it
always exists in the process of discerning between “me” and me. There are two kinds of
reflexivity: egocentric and non-egocentric. Egocentric reflexivity is directed to the ego as an
absolute center. Non-egocentric reflexivity is beyond ego’s sphere and is directed to the Other of
everything (the being). In the friend’s voice we can hear the voice of the Other of everything that
articulates itself in ourselves; the Other of everything, that is present in ourselves, makes it
possible for us to hear it in the friend’s voice.