Kim są uczestnicy Buberowskiego dialogu? [Who are the participants of Buber’s dialogue?]

• Main Author: Witold P. Glinkowski
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego 2014-06-01
• Series: Analiza i Egzystencja
• Subjects: philosophical anthropology; neighbor; philosophy of dialogue; Martin Buber; dialogical relation
• Online Access: http://egzystencja.whus.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/26-Glinkowski-Kim-s%C4%85-uczestnicy-Buberowskiego-dialogu.pdf

This article tries to explain the meaning of „I” and „Thou” as categories essential for Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue. I consider these categories in a context of human’s origin and interpersonal existence. Buber’s statement of ‘dialogity’ as a specific quality of human existence has, first of all, descriptive status, and then – indirectly and secondarily – prescriptive one. I take special notice of a transcendent position of Thou towards I and distance between them. I also take under consideration „nominal” matter of I and Thou, which decides on one’s individuality and their ability to listen and answer. The result of I and Thou meeting is recognizing in I a fellow-man towards Thou. Being I and being Thou can be identified only if they are able to cross immanent cultural sphere. This is because addressing I by Thou had its beginning in transcendentalism of divine Thou and can not be interpreted in immanent context of culture as autonomous cultural area.