Buber In Ten Minutes
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- Disclaimer: These are not my images. This video is intended as an introduction to the thought of Martin Buber, with an emphasis on I and Thou. This video is not intended as a comprehensive or definitive account of his work. This video is for educational purposes only. I hereby apologize for the 38 second discrepancy in the posted "Ten Minutes" tagline.
I'm sorry to say that I didn't get it.
I'm new to Buber and read a bit and watched some videos.
I hope someone could explain it to me like I'm a ten year old.
I firmly believe that anything important can be written on the back of a business card. E=mc2 /Species change over millions of years because of predator or environment and mutation/ our universe began when an unstable quantum particle exploded/ Martin Buber's great idea was that...........
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"Although we usually treat each other like objects, we can also treat each other like the luminous, sacred beings we actually are." I think that would fit on a business card, especially if you wrote it in relatively small letters. Thanks for the interesting challenge. Eric D.
@@ericdodson2644 Thanks, Eric. I hate philosophy with a fiery passion but am forced to study it for my degree. So thanks for this!
From how I see it short terms:
I-thou : To see the entirety of an individual as precious and important
I-It : To only see the convenience and objective benefits of an individual
In terms of like romantic relationships you can say that I-thou makes two couple love each other for all of their existance and humanity while I-it only see the surface and and direct benefit of being with this person like sexual pleasure, financial gains, society standards, or the fear of being alone.
Please correct me if I'm wrong though if someone could add.
You are a victim of your culture, little guy. A haiku can be written on the back of a business card and so can the phone number of a girl you meet at a party, but nothing else of any worth. Start using your lazy little brain. You have to work to learn the verbal system of any language including your own. Buber has to be read and digested and talked about with a qualified instructor.
Choose (to Enrich your life with )encounters :(that are )reciprocal in respectful nurturing and growth like the energy your heartbeats have for each of you.
This is my favorite from the I Thou book:
love does not cling to an I, as if the You were merely its “content” or object; it is between I and You. Whoever does not know this, know this with his being, does not know love, even if he should ascribe to it the feelings that he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses. Love is a cosmic force.
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”
Thanks to Buber we can now get the true depth of this piece of wisdom
In 10 minutes I understood what I couldn't understand in a three hour lecture...
If you can’t say thing concisely, maybe don’t say them.
Same
Nice summary. I think of Buber as a deeply contradictory thinker, because most of his insights come from deep intimacy in my opinion, but a lot of his language is rather abstract as well. I just read a good biography on him by Paul Mendenes-Flohr called _Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and DIssent_ that explains reasons in his life why he became who he became that really is much better of an insight than some of his books. _I-Thou_ is my favorite, because it requires multiple slow readings to even get close to it. Living it helps you better than reading about it most of the time for me.
This was PERFECT. Thank you. My brother gave me "I and Thou"in the 1980's, and I never really got it...until your video!!
Well, I'm glad that this video helped you appreciate _I and Thou_ a little more. I can easily understand how that book might seem incomprehensible, especially at first. That's especially true because it's written in a fairly poetic, evocative, almost oracular way -- rather than in a straightforward, declarative way. But once you get past that, things get a lot easier. Anyhow, thanks for watching & commenting. Gratitude. Eric D.
Beautiful! Buber is my favorite Hasidic Rabbi. His works have changed my life. May he rest in shalom!
Very concise, articulate and enlightening presentation. Thank you!
This was brilliant. Thank You (Thou).
“Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”
Carlos Castaneda
The Will and Grace part was too funny
You are very well read and I love these videos. They deserve more views. Thank you.
Thank you so, so much for this. This was brilliantly put!
That was an absolutely brilliant listen. Thank you
Thank you for disseminating this useful intro to Buber. The images added clarity and wit.
Yes: "...and the courage to enter into" - sometimes I chicken out and sometimes risk. Today, I passed a not-obviously-friendly, big guy. 'Nah...okay, here goes'.
I smiled at him, he smiled a true, connecting smile. I was enriched.
Thanks, Rachim, for taking the time to watch and comment. Yeah, courage (etymologically, a quality of the heart) seems to be one in the biggest variables in the I-Thou equation. I think that moments when we find that kind of courage -- when we manage to make genuine connection with our fellow travelers -- tend to be cumulative. In other words, having moments like the one you're describing tend to produce more of those kinds of moments over time. It's almost as if the I-Thou is a kind of ability that we can cultivate throughout our lives. Anyhow, thanks again for the response. Eric
Eric Dodson
I like that - "the I-Thou is a kind of ability that we can cultivate throughout our lives." Increasingly available to all, provided they risk and practice.
@@ericdodson2644 Wow
Yep. 💯This is real, clear talk. Fantastic explanation. No longer stuck. Now I can finish my Biblical PowerPoint due tonight. Clarity beats confusion every time. 👍👍💯
The Jewish Buddha. The I in I-Thou reminds me of the Buddhist principle of interdependence and causality -- the self does not exist independently because the self merely represents the effect of a multitude of causes (which also have a cause). Thank you for the video!
reminds me of emptiness
Thank you very much for this summary! I tried to read the bood I and Thou - but it is quite difficult to read. I think your summary will help me to continue reading. Very helpful!
lol thumbs up for will and grace joke, philosophical humor at its best
Johnathan Amrein .. and tv at its worst
Hardly a joke
The I to It is do true Humanity needs more of the I thou and I seek it
This is a great video, explaining buber beautifully. What a great job!
Thank you so much! This helped me understand a very mind boggling chapter in our text.
Thanks. Great introduction! Want to read more now.
thank you for this video! i really appreciate and admire your way of explaining subjects :) hope you have a great day
thanks for a very good presentation. very clear and easy to understand. well done.
Thank you!! Short and to the point! Awesome.
I love your shared knowledge 💕
Thank you very much
Thanks for making the complicated easy
7:14 "Similarly, attitudes toward God that stray out of relation into an overly externalized such as "God is All," or an overly internalized form such as "God is within me" similarly miss the mark, as Buber puts it, "You need God in order to be, and God needs you for that which is the meaning of your life."
It is this idea of relationship that has disappeared from both religion and philosophy. It is the Other in the relationship, NOT the "I" in which Buber seeks the divine. It is in one's neighbor, not in one's self identification that Buber tells us the opportunity for transcendence becomes manifest. This video is right on the mark.
Great video! I would love to hear more about Buber's anarchism and political theory.
Great video, also many of the pictures were hilarious
Thanks, Chad, for the comment, and especially for getting the jokes. That doesn't always happen, so it's gratifying when it does. So thanks for that. Eric
Excellent video!!
Thank you so much, Sir!
Thank you! I really appreciate this!
Came for school, stayed for the Jensen Ackles photo
Thank you for this. Helped a lot.
Very well explained. Thank you!
Brilliant! I love it!
Thanks for an awesome summary. 👌
This was a HUGE help to my studies. Thank you!
HUGE?... HUGE ... REALYREELY??? OR LIKE RAINBOW BRIGHT IN YOUR PANTS POCKET HUGE DOOD?
CUZ, LIKE JUST THATS A MAYTER OF OPINION DUDE.. SO LIKE SO PLASTIC SURGE? OR GRAVITATIONAL PULL WITH WEIGHTY NEED???????....
Your oozing too many napkins, 😂
I-It : We find people useful (demand to serve us)
I-Thou: We find people beautiful (voluntary serve them)
What would you think Martin Buber think of social media today? Very interesting video helped me to understand his philosophy for a segment in my dissertation, thank you!
This is so goooood !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!
Excellent thank you.
thank you
Philosophy is hard to understand thanks to this vid. It helps me in my reports :) ill give this a thumbs up :)
Thank you!
Concise, insightful and engaging
So helpful, thank you!
Buber is the philosopher who explained _why_ you should "open your heart"
Eric Dodson, thanks for the video. How was Buber said to be influenced by Nietzsche?
great stuff
really good synopsis. thank you. Have exam which I hope features this area next wk, so waa good recap.
8:13
Thank you Bro
Immediacy Context: "I" appreciate "Thou" in this presentation Dr. Dodson.
Sweet! Thanks.
Nice explanation
Insightful.
Thank you! Informative, in some ways, but how did he influence on Carl Rogers?
God is all - pantheism (externalized)
God is within me - Buddhism (internalized)
I always slept on Buber. Although I was required to read him for class, he was overshadowed by Satre,Heidegger, and even Karl Jaspers.
My mother, a descendant of Portuguese Jews (Sephardim) of South Carolina, told me as a child in East Harlem, NY to "sit and read the old Testament, King James Version" Bible. All of the ideas and philosophy of Mr. Buber is from the Bible:)
I was about to buy this book today. I was flicking through it in the book shop. It just looked so awkward to read that I chickened out.
very useful introduction, thankyou. May I suggest you invest in a popshield (or pair of tights stretched over a bent coathanger) when recording any more of these great 'in ten minutes'? Labially, Buber is probably the most speaker-cone busting thinker whose thoughts you so expertly crystallise, but lovely sentences like "paradigm of a powerful and compelling narrative... perhaps" are also a bit punishing on the eardrums. Alternatively, a quick analysis found quite a ot of energy under 165Hz that could be cut without your smooth tones suffering. yours, a sound nerd with headphones on.
Wow, this has to be one of the funniest critiques of the auditory element of my videos! Hilarious. Actually, I've already started using a pop-shield, as well as some compression & equalization to smooth-out the sonic anomalies. But thanks for the analysis, as well as for the laughs... "Labially... the most speaker-cone busting thinker..." Ha ha! I doff my chapeau to you, sir (or madam, as the case may be). Eric D.
glad you took it the right way, sir. In general, CZcams comments particularly highlight the need for a universal understanding of the shortcomings of the "I-it" dialogue! thanks again. Mr Rok
can you give some examples of I Thou?
Well, it's hard to give specific definitive examples of I-Thou moments because the I-Thou is defined more by HOW we engage each other -- the spirit with which we do that -- rather than in overtly observable activities or behaviors. However, perhaps the experience of deep love or intimacy would be, at least for some people, a kind of example (of course, for other people, "love" is really about just getting what you want from someone else.... a kind of manipulation). On the other hand, the I-Thou can take place at any point and in anything we're doing. So, in that regard, anything at all could be a possible example of the I-Thou (even writing this response to you). It all depends upon how we're living it -- either in the spirit of relation and reciprocity, or in that of distance and manipulation. Hope this helps, or at least makes things more interestingly confusing. Eric
Eric Dodson ok, enjoying or experiencing somebody's presencing would be "I thou", though I think my daft interlocutor was trying to rail against the "I it".
I can say that "woman's" arms are like a man, it's revolting on her.
+Eric Dodson Does it differ at all from in-itself and for-itself?
+The Shaolin Yeah. Sartre's for-itself/in-itself idea is a phenomenological theory of how consciousness operates in general, whereas Buber's I-it/I-Thou distinction is about how there are two primary ways whereby that can happen. In more detail.... the for-itself/in-itself distinction is a way of explaining the intentionality and referentiality of consciousness -- the active process by which the for-itself refers to the in-itself, primarily by way of nihilation (i.e., no-thing-ness), which is ultimately what allows us to make distinctions in our conscious awareness of things. However, for Buber, there are two primary ways of doing all of that: Either by way of an I-it (i.e., objectifying) posture, or an I-Thou (i.e., mutual) posture.
Eric Dodson Lol now I remember why I'm a little hazy on Buber, one or two of his theories were lost on me. Thank you for the elaborate explanation. I'll definitely read up on him once again.
the joker explains martin buber in 10 minutes should be the title
Dear Mr. DOBSON
thnx a lot for this perfect introduction into Buber and especially his work "I and Thou".
I have to confess, that I tried to read and understand the small booklet and understand practically nothing. I couldn't feel any relation to my own experience. How different is your introduction.
But for now, I do have a very easy question. It is just a translation problem.
You are using the word
JACK-GERMAN describing Martin Buber.
i never heard this wordcombination before. Also couldn't find it in any dictionary online.
Is the meaning like
"austrian german" or "jewish german" or something else?
Tx for ur answer and greetings from Germany,
Steve
I think you're referring to the phrase, "... the Judaic theologian and philosopher..." "Judaic" means Jewish, or in the Jewish tradition. A theologian is someone who studies God, religion, etc. So, a Judaic theologian is someone who studies God & religion from a Jewish perspective. Anyhow, I'm glad that this video helped you. And greetings from Georgia, USA (in the Southeastern part of the country). Eric D.
@@ericdodson2644
Thanks a lot Mr. Dodson, for answering so fast.
Actually I made a mistake. I mistook Buber and Husserl.
Here - czcams.com/video/PjknxljepKA/video.html - you are using this word "jack-german"... ;-)
@@SteveMcHope ... Oh, well, that's "Czech/German." "Czech" here refers to the Czech Republic, which is where Husserl was born and grew up (although at that time it was part of the Austrian Empire).
...and I made another mistake and made Mr. Dodson to Mr. Dobson --> I am sorry (but I hope, that a great mind is not deeply touched by such earthly failures ;-)
@@SteveMcHope Ha ha... no worries. Anyhow, failures don't bother me, especially since I see them as opportunities to grow and improve ourselves... to expand our perceptual fields, and ultimately our very lives. As the saying goes, "It's all good."
let me know when you get to Popper!
Ha ha... I talked a little bit about him in my video on Phenomenology & Meditative Consciousness. But I don't think I said his name (it was in the pictures)... so you should be safe. Well, at least relatively safe...the fricatives in "falsifiability" might make you feel like someone's cutting off your head with a rusty hack-saw.
I-It: addressing God as “magic formula”
I-Thou: “personal relationship with Jesus Christ” (Born Again)
Abba- God the Father
nice video thumbs up, I will subscribe.
can you make one for Habermass " Legitimation Crisis"
Unbelievable! My professor has ripped off this presentation WORD FOR WORD and did an online lecture on Buber with it!
Ha ha. Maybe your professor needs to learn to plagiarize things that aren't receiving so many views... and hence aren't as likely to be seen by his/her students.
Eternal Thou Seems Somewhat Similar To the Eternal Tao. Was Buber influenced by such philosophy?
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Eric - thanks, I found your videos this morning -- concise and ambitious. If you haven't found it yet, I've been watching and rewatching Rick Roderick (e.g. great segment on Heidegger, who I saw you also covered: czcams.com/video/sDqDJJcJAOg/video.html). Would be interested to know if folks have found other compelling treatments of philosophers elsewhere.
Yeah, I've been a fan of Rick Roderick for years now. He's great, and it's great that his videos are now accessible on CZcams. Thanks for watching, and for commenting.
linda Standley
So i guess im the only one that laughed at the hands praying with a dollar sign chain lol
Well I guess ima Buber.
Why is it that man's virtues automatically point to a God and His grace and goodness as the source ... but man's vices and weaknesses are automatically attributable to ... himself?
I just realized, that I don't need 10 minute introductions. as I was younger, I would have needed 10 min videos like this, as I had the feeling, I have no time for these things. now that I am 45, I feel like time flies and everything happens so fast etc but for thinks like work of a philosopher I like to take time, invest my time share to benefit from more depth...Isn't this a little odd, when you think about it superficially?
Well, by their very nature brief introductions tend to be somewhat superficial & light, rather than comprehensive & weighty. However, it might be that you've outgrown the need for that type of treatment. That's fine; probably this video series isn't for you. On the other hand, as you yourself are indicating, there's a time in life when it's just the right thing. I'm pretty much making these videos for people who are in that phase of life -- people who would benefit from having a little taste of something before committing to a 5-course meal.
I know. I didn't want to discourage you. also, I used the word "superficial" in my comment above, but I didn't mean, you are looking on Martin Buber superficially. I meant, it is a little odd or feels funny for me, looking superficially on the different views on time as a youngster and as a more mature person. the view on time and what is seen as boring or interesting. of course there is a logic. it does make sense that a young person is sometimes more restless and so on. but just to say (like I do) this is too short for me, I would like to 'invest' time for this, when usually I am rather shocked how little time I have. now the next 20 years seem to be so close. just the next episode. with 18 that seemed to be so far away... I am not sure, if this is more confusing than clarifying. but you keep on doing these videos. I would have appreciated this very much as student esp. as undergraduate.
to increase more I Thou or reduce egoistic: zen...no objectification (Kierkegaard vehemently against fake ingenuine faith)
これがさわ丸の事務所かw
Jewish philosopher! Yes!
Am I sensing an I-it vibe here?!
***dialectical***
I genuinely cannot think of a single person who lives in I-Thou. So I am doubtful that it can even be considered a real concept. Seems more like grasping at the unattainable.
Harsh reality I - IT
booba
I don't really understand his argument that we are becoming more reliant on the I-it, historically I think the I-it has always been more prevalent than the I-thou, Slavery was the best example of the I-it taken to its extreme, class and caste systems dominated much of society pre the 20th century.
West Side is da best
We are not becoming more RELIANT.
We are becoming ADDICTIVE DEPENDENT, very, very different.
On the issue of an I-Thou relationship with God: could it be argued that the human construction of an objective God is actually an I-It relationship that is, at its heart, an avoidance of an I-Thou relationship with what is actually reality?
,...YOUR...VVERY..."WELCUM?"😊
Heh... Buber.
uuuh! 38 seconds. that is so inappropriate!
3:25
In bubers knowledge of man. it is stated there that man cannot objectify the "eternal thou."
I think the Kabbalah is nonsense.
God = ego
thank you