Philosopher of Dialogue
Martin Buber
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An Austrian-born Jewish philosopher who contrasted using others as objects with meeting them as a You, and later taught in Jerusalem.
Key work: I and Thou (1923)
“All actual life is encounter.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
We can meet another as You, or use them as It.
Real life happens in meeting.
Dialogue asks us to be fully present.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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