Martin Buber ( 1878-1965). Jewish philosopher- writer- translator, born in Vienna. He was a researcher of the Hasidism. This religious-philosophical position formed a way of his thinking. His philosophy is based on : "I- Thou" ( dialogue), "I- it"(monologue).
A real life is "a meeting", our "I" is always towards something. The crisis of the relation is a crisis of the man. The man is entering the monologue- relation with reality "I - it", and dialogue- "I - Thou". In the relation "I- it" a dialogue is missing, but it is essential for the human life.
The problem relies on it, that people instead of to enter the dialogue- are monologuing. They are making this way, because they are afraid to reveal. Sometimes they are creating appearances of the dialogue.
Buber is criticizing both :the collectivism, and the extreme individualism, because we should be both for oneself, and for somebody else.
"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. Each thing and being has a twofold nature: passive, absorbable, usable, dissectable, comparable, combinable, rationalizable, and the other, the active, non-absorbable, unusable, undissectible, incomparable, noncombinable, nonrationalizable. This is the confronting, the shaping, the bestowing of things. He who truly experiences a thing so that it springs up to meet him and embraces him of itself has in that thing known the world..." - Martin Buber
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