@mar1na1993
I am beginning a personal deep-dive into Buber on recommendation from my Rabbi. Currently experiencing an existential crisis - as I frequently do - and she thought that the way I was describing it fit very well with Buber's thoughts. Thank you for your introduction to this content, as I know it's going to be a bit dense for me to get through.
@SanjayKumar-kv5nz
I - Thou in the Indian culture is demonstrated by the very common gesture of the "Namaste" a person's two palms meeting in each other in respectful greeting - "I recognise the divine in you" is the meaning of Namaste
@bzurer
This is wondeful. Thank you.
@PunkYogaStar
Oh, and I think the strap line to your channel should be "Are You Gettin' It?" Love it.
@ess96720
Thou is like Tú in Spanish. A form used with friends and family or casual encounters. Thanks for this lecture.
@streetscissors3457
The eternal thou being described as two parallel lines meeting is to refer to a circular/perfect being. The only points where two parallel lines can meet it on a sphere, in this 3D plane. Introduce time (4D) and parallel lines can meet at life and death, creation and destruction, and other polar temporal concepts.
@dreamingdreamerdream
This is making perfect sense. Jung wrote that the Self (imago dei) is also us but we don't know it yet. It is an unfolding experience, an agent of transformation, a mode of becoming. The more we get in touch with our Self, the more we get in touch with the Self of others. That means seeing the divine in others is seeing the divine in ourselves. As Goethe puts it: we see in the world what we carry in our hearts. "God is a circle whose center is everywhere (divine in everyone) and circumference is nowhere (it is unlimited)". Thou is the paradoxical God image, thus two parallel lines meet. But as Nietzsche predicted, the death of God is also the death of this divinatory faculty. The ego reigns supreme, everything is reduced to objectification. I and it.
@hyejue
Thanks. I am here from Korea to know more about Martin Buber. 감사합니다.
@SchoolOfAlchemy
Professor Dodson, I'm not your student but I'm studying philosophy, alchemy & psychology. One of our required reading is Martin Buber I and Thou and out of other videos I saw here, yours is the one that has explained well in academic level and philosophical as well. Thank you so much for posting your lecture. I also have a youtube channel School of Alchemy, I want to invite you to be my guest. If you published a book or literature, I would like to promote it on my channel.
@skeleton-man
Nailing it as always. Thanks, Eric! You the man. Will & Grace ... luv it!!
@cameliavaschi600
Beautiful. Thank you,!
@hansen2558
Hello, Mr. Dodson! I am not your student (I hope you don't mind), for I am somewhere from Southeast Asia. Thank you for posting this publicly, you do not know how many people you help.
@NicolinaDanielle
During pandemic times when reading is hard because of stress I am so thankful for these lectures
@pinnacleroofing9841
I find most people don't want to be addressed as Thou as it presses them to consider their own Thou and not live superficially. If you address someone as thou most become defensive and suspicious.
@erdalbuber
great lecture. thanks for this.
@emrahkorkmaz87
Martin Buber iş complicated, but I really like his philosophy.
@free_soul1111
Thank you for this! I understood very well
@dweeebazoid
Is it possible to find and download the pdfs of the notes to your lectures? Hearing your views on the various texts has been very helpful to me as I study existential and humanistic psychology. Thank you for making this available!
@kauffmanba
Your lecture got me to thinking... If you prefer I-thou to I-you, would you address a group of Southerners as th'all instead of y'all?
@puppetspoetry7019