Me and You (Ich und Du), written in 1923, is the most emblematic work of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber and the starting point of dialogic philosophy.
The caudal importance of this work in Western philosophy is due to having given the shift of monological thinking to the dialogical one, which expresses itself thus: each one is who he is in his relation with the other. According to Buber, the human being relates in two ways to existence: the attitude of the Self towards the Self, which generates always open relations and mutual dialogue, and the relationship I-It, referred to the world and its objects as we experience it . But both types of relationship are inextricable and ultimately lead us to the relationship between the human being and the eternal source of the world, God, the eternal You who, by its very nature, can not become It, and which is only possible Arrive thro...read more
