I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another
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Philosophy of dialogue: Relationship
Relationship is what makesĀ a forest a forestĀ andĀ an ocean an ocean.Ā
To meet the world on its own terms and respect the reality of another as an expression of that world as fundamental and inalienable as your own reality is an art immensely rewarding yet immensely difficult.
How to master the orientation of heart, mind, and spirit essential for the art of sincere and honorable relationship is what philosopherĀ Martin BuberĀ explores in his 1923 classicĀ I and Thou ā the foundation of Buberās influential existentialist philosophy of dialogue.
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To the man the world is twofold, in accordance with his twofold attitude.Ā
The attitude of man is twofold, in accordance with the twofold nature of the primary words which he speaks.Ā
The primary words are not isolated words, but combined words.Ā
The one primary word is the combinationĀ IāThou.Ā
The other primary word is the combinationĀ IāIt; wherein, without a change in the primary word, one of the wordsĀ HeĀ andĀ SheĀ can replaceĀ It.Ā
Hence theĀ IĀ of man is also twofold. For theĀ IĀ of the primary wordĀ IāThouĀ is a different I from that of the primary wordĀ IāIt.
MARTIN BUBER
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I - Thou. I - It.
Ā IāItĀ establishes the world of experience and sensation.
IāThouĀ establishes the world of relationship, which asks of each person a participatory intimacy.Ā ThouĀ addresses another not as an object but as a presence.
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āReal isnāt how you are madeā¦ Itās a thing that happens to you.ā
JAPANESE ARTIST KOMAKO SAKAI
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All real living is meeting
To address another asĀ Thou, Buber suggests, requires a certain self-surrender that springs from inhabiting oneās own presence while at the same time stepping outside oneās self.
Only then does the other cease to be a means to oneās own ends and becomes real.Ā
The primary wordĀ IāThouĀ can be spoken only with the whole being.
Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, nor can it ever take place without me.
I become through my relation to theĀ Thou; as I becomeĀ I, I sayĀ Thou.
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Another perspective to look into relationship: the fundamental truth of this world of appearance.
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