Philo Flashcards
an Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue
Martin buber
“The _____ is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings
World
“All real ____ is meeting.”
Living
All actual _____ is encounter.”
Life
Men feel themselves to be carried by the ______, which lifts them out of loneliness and fear of the world and lostness.”
Collectivity
Through the ________ a person becomes I.”
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Thou
“The origin of all ______ between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don’t do what I say.”
Conflict
“To yield to seeming is man’s essential ______, to resist it is his essential courage.”
Cowardice
“Man wishes to be ______ in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…
Confirmed
Secretly and bashfully he watches for a ____ which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.”
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Yes
Acceptance is the ______ to all change.
Road
Happiness can exist only in _____.
George Orwell
Acceptance
_______ is responsibility of an I for a Thou: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.”
Love
______ does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its “ content,” its object; but love is between I and Thou.”
Love
“The experience of _________ begins from the experience of ________.”
Love
Loneliness
_______ is the place of purification.
Soltitude
ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LOVE
Love is historical
Love is total
Love is eternal
Love is sacred
WAYS BY WHICH PEOPLE ADDRESS LONELINESS
Escapism
Confirmity with groups
Creative and productive work or activity
One of the most basic experiences of the human being because of self-awareness
Loneliness
We give more importance to being loved that to loving.
People think that to love is easy and what is difficult is to find the right person to love or be loved by.
We confuse the initial falling-in-love with the permanent state of being-in-love.
The art of loving
It constitutes finding in the other the disposition toward what one recognizes as true, good and beautiful.
It involves seeing the other as a unique, singular individual capable of freely actualizing himself/herself.
Unfolding
It constitutes holding one’s own opinion, values, attitudes and oneself without regard for those of another.
It is telling the other how he or she should act, behave and respond to things.
Imposition
TENDENCIES THAT MAKE DIALOGUE AND PERSONAL MAKING PRESENT DIFFICULT
Analytical thinking
Reductive thinking
Derivational thinking
It is the process of fully opening oneself to the other.
Personal making present
It refers to one’s talking past another.
It is hearing without listening to what one says.
Speechifying
It is a way of approaching the other governed by the image one desires to impress on the other.
It involves deliberately playing up or hiding aspects of yourself to appear more desirable or impressive.
Seeming
It refers to the world of experience and sensation where there are objects.
The beings do not actually meet. Instead, the “I” confronts and qualifies an idea, or conceptualization, of the being in its presence and treats that being as an object.
Ich-Es (I-It) relationship
It refers to the world of encounters and relationships where there are persons.
It is a concrete encounter without any qualification or objectification of one another.
It is a dialogue.
Ich-Du (I-Thou) relationship
It is a deep and genuine relationship between persons.
It happens when two persons truly acknowledge each other’s presence and treat each other as equals.
Dialogue
The social refers to the life of a group bound together by common experiences and reactions.
The interhuman refers to the life between and among persons; it refers to the interpersonal, that is, a life of dialogue
Social vs interhuman
It is the condition of man, a subject, among other men, who are also subjects.
It refers to the shared awareness and understanding among persons.
It is made possible by the awareness of the self and the other.
Intersubjectivity
