La vocación del encuentro. Reflexiones sobre la dimensión ética del don de sí mismo a los otros, desde una perspectiva filosófica personalista y dialógica

This article seeks to reflect on the concept of vocation, understood as a personal and original project that needs to be experienced also in the encounter with others. To do this, first, we discuss what is meant by vocation from a personal and dialogical philosophical perspective.Then, the foundations are developed that allow to understand the link between vocation and encounter with others, being such: freedom; love understood as manifestation of the giving who is; the understanding of the notion of otherness as ethical and ontological listening that awakens in the subject the esteem for himself by his responsible response to others, and; the care of the you, which denotes the relational essence of the human condition.Subsequently, the experience of vocation is detailed in a community dimension which occurs due to an original experience of loneliness that pushes the person to overcome it. This impulse is due to the person’s desire to live the so-called good life and to his or her understanding of vulnerability, which invites him or her to depend on others to alleviate it.Finally, we reflect on the importance of the moment understood as a misunderstanding in which time and eternity touch each other, that short circuit between the two immeasurable extremes, that it allows a confrontation with its constitutive difference and also offers the opportunity to settle as an ethical possibility, an opportunity to be fruitful by giving to the other, offering of a personal vocation that requires meeting those close to them, helping them to live the originality of their existence by recognizing them as neighbors.