Topic: Martin Buber

[Rasmus]

Just a quick check here. Who has read Martin Buber's "I and You" (I think the title is like that in english, I have only read the german original and some swedish translation)?
There were some points I wanted to bring up, but if noone knows what I am talking about then I will spare you all the rather long-winded post.

[Commissar Warbird]

I read the book when i was in college. I never really did like that whole human encounters stuff. I really don't know why i read it i was never really intrested in philosophy.

[Rasmus]

Oh lord. Somone else who had to endure it. Did yo ufind it mindlessly repeating the same point in different guises over and over, or was that just me? I think the first few paragraphs pretty much summed it up, and rest were just consequences of those first paragraphs (some I could figure out on my onw, some were truly "out there").

[Commissar Warbird]

Did yo ufind it mindlessly repeating the same point in different guises over and over, or was that just me? I think the first few paragraphs pretty much summed it up, and rest were just consequences of those first paragraphs (some I could figure out on my onw, some were truly "out there").

That about what i thought of it except add some obscene language here and there. yeah about after three pages i was ready to be done i would have burned the waste had it not been required reading.

[Rasmus]

I am finding it somewhat hard to get through, but interesting. The notion that things shift in a binary state depending on teh way you are actually perceiving it is fascinating, although a bit hard to grasp at times.