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I'm not sure there's one answer to that. Mine would be that the character of the relation depends on the mode in which the subject participates with the world. Intentionality is a two way street, so when you interact with the world as a lifeless it, that's what is revealed to you; but when you do so as if it were a thou, something completely different unfolds for you, and nature reveals a different side of itself—one that is wholly living and chocked full of telos. You find something similar with people; you'll see a robotic mass of conditioned responses when you treat them as objects, but catch a glimpse of their infinite potentiality when you open up and let them reveal themselves to you as subjects.
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