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27b79d2038b015456ef95e7a0608d130fe78a381317a46003bfb34485b2213f0 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/Editor's Introduction/2 | en | edition_unspecified | 2 | {"json_pointer": "/text/Editor's Introduction/2", "section": "/text/Editor's Introduction/2"} | Now while the subjectivism and irrationalism of the first representative of religious existentialism Kierkegaard, may be absent in Buber, the latter’s main position with regard to the encounter requires elucidation from a Torah point of view. Inasmuch as Buber maintains that the most authentic source for the dialogical... |
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cf3901892306ac61642ce5b17875490ee7b229a43480e34b2c4d0867969e68f5 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/0 | en | edition_unspecified | 6 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/0", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/0"} | I and Thou<br>It is mainly due to the writings of Martin Buber that the term, I-and-Thou, has become a household phrase in modern philosophical and religious thought. It may prove profitable to develop the important ideas implied in this term by starting with Buber’s description of two aspects of the human ego, which h... |
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4fb498c5c2ded297d2dceb45817dbfea44af76f891553aabbdd75c59aabffbfc | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/2 | en | edition_unspecified | 8 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/2", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/2"} | The two poles of human existence correspond to two aspects of all reality. The one may be called its thinghood, the other, its personal essence. As individual being, one experiences the world as a thing, as <i>It;</i> as a person, one encounters all reality as <i>Thou</i>. The two attitudes Buber designates by the two ... |
ad317adac3ff0f193c6dc53e3e00b708da5666a41d3d0ff45b1d028da2dd2afa | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/3 | en | edition_unspecified | 9 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/3", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/3"} | One might also say that as individual being man uses the world, he manipulates it. Reality submits to him. However, as a manipulator, he is outside, he cannot participate. Only as a person is he present; only so does he meet and associate. As the <i>I</i> of <i>I-Thou</i>, he participates. The non-participating <i>I</i... |
4d736a5ea7a4e1b0ceb74b7ab4fbc2c7900dbd7bd6a67b8706479785c0afbe8c | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/4 | en | edition_unspecified | 10 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/4", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/4"} | A significant difference between the two manifestations of being is to be seen in the fact that only as a thing does the world have solidity and tangible durability. Only as <i>It</i> can the world be circumscribed by the coordinates of time and space. Being, however, as a personal presence, as <i>Thou</i> that meets u... |
2f36f6ef6e74adc747174c50fcf44a5ccfeb52a439de2b7f25e8770a70072aae | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/5 | en | edition_unspecified | 11 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/5", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/5"} | Only the It-world, because of its solidity, may become the ordered world. As such, it can be the object of common discourse between people. Concerning the ordered world of the <i>It</i>, they may reach any measure of agreement. The world of the <i>Thou</i>, with its sudden appearances and equally unexpected withdrawal,... |
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7a8129308e081f572f7c3611f414c8c43c3713bfe4888b3c2260b15d0a82b6b7 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/8 | en | edition_unspecified | 14 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/8", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/8"} | In order to understand the specific nature of the pure relation, we must bear in mind the distinction between it and all other I-Thou situations. As we saw earlier in our analysis, the I-Thou relation is not subject to the time-space coordinates. A Thou does not border; one is alone with one’s Thou. This entails that I... |
ac7cff93d2ba94108866bc22ef3a67275d5d5e685d7c6e658528bf12861e5aba | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/9 | en | edition_unspecified | 15 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/9", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/9"} | Another specific feature of the pure relation is to be seen in the fact that the all-inclusive Presence of the eternal Thou provides the continuity of the personal quality of all reality. At first, we found solidity only in the connectedness of the It-world in time and space. The I-Thou encounters between finite beings... |
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3c25fde57faf2dca518968a7abca7205f0847d6c724a855eea8c14bd8c2c47ae | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/11 | en | edition_unspecified | 17 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/11", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/11"} | It is, of course, necessary to probe further into the nature of the pure relation. Who is man’s partner in the relation? We have seen that Buber calls him the eternal Thou, the Being of all beings, the Presence in all presences, the “soul of my soul,” or God. What, then, does he mean by God? One cannot call him the Abs... |
9237d5751e667951affa36ff35be3c5b5d5f7af91cc828e1a493d05491661c83 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/12 | en | edition_unspecified | 18 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/12", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/12"} | There is, however, one more question still to be asked: how does he address man? How does he reveal his presence to man? How does the relation come about? Buber does not consider the address by which the absolute Person makes himself known to man a supernatural event. Nothing really happens beside, or in addition to, t... |
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66bc27c59480ca5c373537e19e2b04044570ed633874b25f94706a4509d6d99a | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/14 | en | edition_unspecified | 20 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/14", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/14"} | We can know God only because he addresses man; the relation is his revelation. Needless to say, the relation does not make the mystery intelligible. As we have heard, the Unknown is the essentially unknowable. Revelation consists in what is revealed by the Voice, in what is made known in the address. Revelation and the... |
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8d3b15e080697cf63e4172f811e0fd1a8ed810769c4f282e9b7946f440f38ffb | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/18 | en | edition_unspecified | 24 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/18", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/18"} | Obviously, the determinism of the It realm does not cease to be effective even for the man who returns to its with the spark from the encounter with the Thou. However, it becomes transformed. Understanding how this happens leads us to another one of the key thoughts in Buber’s philosophy. The man who stood in the prese... |
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6ec6550e88f5353ac979b5f382b8ba855ddafada04a1c85c1e3cc25cfe8bf22e | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/23 | en | edition_unspecified | 29 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/23", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/23"} | There seems to be no subject under the heavens that, according to Buber, is not amenable to illumination by his magic formula of I-Thou. Already in his earliest writings he applied it to a criticism of historic religions. |
3c22eceaeb01d9bdaea10dd179afc7ee5cb4e53065059eb7255c4f175327ab53 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/24 | en | edition_unspecified | 30 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/24", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/24"} | Buber is prepared to acknowledge that all religion is revelational. Yet, as is well known, religions do promulgate knowledge and prescribe action and behavior. Revelation in historic religions has contents; it knows of Thou-shalt and Thou-shalt-not. This, of course, is not in keeping with Buber’s interpretation of reve... |
9b3bc856fb9c198dab529a61c89dd499f0e64fc4b361694c86aeee35fdeaeb09 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/25 | en | edition_unspecified | 31 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/25", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/25"} | Both these attitudes are mistakes. The continuity of the relation in time may only be assured by incorporating relation into the whole of man’s life in the world. The pure relation is realized as man meets the whole of being with the Thou on his lips, by making every day his contribution to the revelation of the Thou i... |
305b8551ea2f80b45d67ede570350f690a2f096a84ef17bfe756845889d23e3a | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/26 | en | edition_unspecified | 32 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/26", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/26"} | So too, man’s longing for constancy in space can be satisfied only by means of the life in the relation itself. A community exists when the radii, which run from every individual I to the eternal Thou in the center, form a circle. The origin of the community is not due to the continuity of the periphery; not the periph... |
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9a51f7187c8d0c7ec1cee86f5597350659f9716036403515b459f665ac81a5e4 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/29 | en | edition_unspecified | 35 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/29", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/29"} | The understanding of the full implication of the primary word I-Thou, yields for Buber the distinction between philosophy and religion. Philosophy often assumes that religion too is founded on an act of intellectual cognition, which, however, is not as clear as philosophical thinking. This is a mistaken notion. Intelle... |
d937716dcea1c3d50458f0245bc0451aa1b4a8fab82ed0eba5d32a3abf96226f | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/30 | en | edition_unspecified | 36 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/30", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/30"} | Objectification in thought means of course that philosophy abstracts from the particular and concrete and sees the absolute in universal concepts or ideas. Religion, however, is essentially involvement in the concrete situation, in which man, the particular, meets God, the Absolute. The convenant between the particular... |
a8a3e743d5dba7f3a5b3d6dca7941ee81ed8419673d3be0183d1e8f983ce09c2 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/31 | en | edition_unspecified | 37 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/31", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/31"} | Closely related to a proper evaluation of philosophy is, according to Buber, the question of ethics. The connection is well illustrated by Kant’s struggle with the problems, “What is God?” and “Is there a God?” as it is reflected in his unfinished posthumous work. What Kant was after was a God who could establish the a... |
f224dfc59f1a29935b06952acd991b5bec40c22fa3059187abacb924fef4e51c | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/32 | en | edition_unspecified | 38 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/32", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/32"} | What then is required? Buber believes that his concept of I-Thou provides the answer. Only the Absolute may be the source of absolute obligation. But we know the Absolute only in the encounter as “the absolute Person.” It follows, then, that the quality of absolute obligation which attends the ethical values depends en... |
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c9bbb684688a5e770e6fbe7a84ec214b6385f83ca0bea5db0d0e995c1fd27f84 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/34 | en | edition_unspecified | 40 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/34", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/34"} | In modern times, the absolute quality of ethical values has come under considerable criticism. Understandably, such criticism is not to be separated from the modern crisis of religion — a crisis due to a philosophical movement that has abolished the Absolute as a personal reality confronting man. The prelude to the pre... |
d59e1133e6cce23c75aa1cd2fe652bbf8542caaa71512b0c4278d99820c05011 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/I The Teachings of Buber/35 | en | edition_unspecified | 41 | {"json_pointer": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/35", "section": "/text/I The Teachings of Buber/35"} | What of the future, what of tomorrow? Nietzsche was wrong in speaking of the “death” of God. The eternal Thou lives on “behind the wall of darkness.” It is modern man who is no longer able to attain to I-Thou relation with Him. For this reason, Buber speaks of “the eclipse of God as the character of the historic hour t... |
9a5a3884efb66dec9a8c86fbe7f8c5cf8bef83934d49fbe6f1c4e984e69de961 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/II Buber's Testimony/0 | en | edition_unspecified | 42 | {"json_pointer": "/text/II Buber's Testimony/0", "section": "/text/II Buber's Testimony/0"} | Having concluded the presentation of the main trends in Buber’s thought, we cannot but agree with him completely when he says that the validity of his teaching is not to be demonstrated or proved. It is of the very essence of what he tells us about that he can only testify to what he himself has encountered and to what... |
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7dfed8927313322816dea3a9694af5f7272f58dfb2686eb59eea37d212b34546 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/II Buber's Testimony/12 | en | edition_unspecified | 54 | {"json_pointer": "/text/II Buber's Testimony/12", "section": "/text/II Buber's Testimony/12"} | Whereas in the main body of Buber’s work the concept of man’s obligation to respond is taken for granted, there is at least one passage where the author allows himself to draw the conclusions clearly from the logical implications of his position. In “Zweisprache” Buber says to his “dear opponent”: “… I beg you to notic... |
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87c2e00529c745951b41fdea9455b596488eb1b4a5045031d952089b3423c877 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/13 | en | edition_unspecified | 91 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/13", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/13"} | In this connection we should like to take up once again the question of the ethical absolute. We have shown earlier that the absoluteness of the ethical obligation cannot be established dialogically. In addition to what has already been said on this account, let it be also noted that Buber labors here under a fundament... |
97915942bc35d3ef5bc6b08c71da0f78f75058a8f8b8410db3fac4cef79d79f9 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/14 | en | edition_unspecified | 92 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/14", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/14"} | <b>Law and Continuity</b> |
75fe5643e78e95b71f9a639bb6fac4e4b9505256837f01a0cc1023801a8bb2f0 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/15 | en | edition_unspecified | 93 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/15", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/15"} | The divine law, or the contents of revelation, has its significance for the specifically religious experience of man’s relation to God. The relation is never as intimate as Buber wants us to believe; it is never mutual and reciprocal. Most important of all, the moments of the Biblical encounter are the rarest in human ... |
59fb0113df42531cabd9b5674f8996ae15d452f037b414c137501610b8534042 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/16 | en | edition_unspecified | 94 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/16", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/16"} | <b>The Biblical Dialogue</b> |
a9bf3d61f1052040ac66116f4e8cfc4155a72cc9ae571643710e028df92d71c6 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/17 | en | edition_unspecified | 95 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/17", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/17"} | Is then there no dialogue and no freedom in the context of the religious reality based on the Biblical encounter? It is the most dangerously misleading aspect of Buber’s philosophy. that it uses Biblical and Jewish concepts but interprets them in such a manner that they lose their Biblical and Jewish signifiance. That ... |
73b7ca5f866a2596cb30862a02efa9f098b5815e0c1877a70c1550fb1a96c4f2 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/18 | en | edition_unspecified | 96 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/18", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/18"} | <b>Faith and Freedom</b> |
65a6d43bc6117f83bf05078b3708f22887f3d739a4cf5ffbfabd8dd377f39a5d | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/19 | en | edition_unspecified | 97 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/19", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/19"} | What are we, however, to say about the question of human freedom and responsibility? When Buber asserts that man stands in dialogical freedom in the I-Thou relation with God, he offers us another circumstantial evidence that he does not speak either of the genuine encounter or of the true relation. In the presence of G... |
dc19f16d787e27158648e8ee2e8eaaf5e7bf2a57773d061489387a772321afe3 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/20 | en | edition_unspecified | 98 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/20", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/20"} | Man’s freedom is returned to him after the encounter. And since encounters are not everyday occurences, and since most people never really enter into actual living relation with God, most people are most of the time of their lives free to accept or reject God. After the encounter, as well as for all those who never exp... |
8eb0f44c35d81c7ce0b81eeb0793abc1adb72cde38569b749c3b4a6a7d18e2a6 | sefaria:A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber | /text/III The Biblical Encounter/21 | en | edition_unspecified | 99 | {"json_pointer": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/21", "section": "/text/III The Biblical Encounter/21"} | Of faith, Buber says that it is the “entrance into this reciprocity (of mutual contact and meeting) as binding oneself in relationship with an undemonstrable and unprovable, yet even so, in relationship knowable Being …”<sup class="footnote-marker">97</sup><i class="footnote">Eclipse, 46.</i> Now, had Buber been satisf... |
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