The sense of otherness

: theological contributions of Adolphe Gesché to the pedagogical problem about the meaning of the human

Abstract

This article, emanating from theological reflection, seeks to offer a reading of the category "meaning" in the work of Adolphe Gesché. For this Belgian theologian, meaning is understood as the search for an alterity that allows the identity constitution of the same subject: I am as another helps me to understand my existence. The key to approaching this question is the recognition that only from the logic of the encounter can we aspire to a constitution of what we are, what we were and what we want to be. Based on this, we will offer a concrete application to how meaning is used in pedagogical practice and in the search for elements to recover how the encounter with others and with God represent spaces to understand the searches for what we call meaning.