Ostalo
Encounter – revealing of being
Ante Akrap
orcid.org/0000-0001-6682-2507
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu
Sažetak
This article is a part of an investigation project of Martin Buber’s philosophical thought. To draw nearer to his thought it was necessary to confront it with the views of different authors, different periods and attitudes. For our reflections on dialogism the starting point is the idea of “I” as a relation, which allows us to understand the anthropological reality and to express our value judgements. In the history of anthropology we can observe two lines, the first one that considers “I” as situated and protected, but isolated and the other one that does not recognize “I” unless it is in a relation, always to the one facing me. In this and such constellation of relations, Buber on the one and Levinas on the other side appear, without any doubt, as two symbolic expressions of a great reversal in the interpretation of human life. Martin Buber appears as a significant expression of a great change in the interpretation of human existence in modern anthropology. Using the method of phenomenon Buber understands and reveals the presence of I in threefold relation: I in relation to the world, to man and to spiritual reality. Phenomenology and ontology are two paradigms requiring the whole investigation on the apriority of being, treated as a relation. Buber’s philosophical talk is a meditation about being, about true acceptation of being in its endless revealing through experience and relation, in such a way that experience and relation become an advance sign of the announcement of presence, existence, behaviour and articulation of being in a certain reality of human being. In the talk about relation it is impossible to avoid Levinas whose reasoning has all the characteristics of relative philosophy. The central idea of interpersonal anthropology with Levinas is the priority of the other one, defined as the “epiphany of person”. With his anthropological thesis Levinas confirms the priority of responsibility over liberty, the priority of ethics in relation to ontology. Although he is a Jew, his approach to man and the theme of inter-subjectivism is totally different from Buber’s, since he raises a question on the knowledge of subjectivity. Unlike Levinas, in J.P.Sartre’s philosophy there is no room for otherness since there is no relation. Philosophy defined as dialogism has given its great contribution to the recent anthropological investigation. Grammar adverb Zwischen takes a central position in it, so that his philosophy can be defined as the “ontology between” – ontology of mutuality.
Ključne riječi
dialogical philosophy; existentialism; subjectivism; I-you; encounter; relation; otherness; mutuality; dialogue
Hrčak ID:
168225
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Datum izdavanja:
1.3.2005.
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