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The Eternal Thou

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

T. E. Burke
T. E. Burke
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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Extract

‘Every particular Thou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particular Thou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou … the Thou that by its nature cannot become It.’

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Philosophy , Volume 54 , Issue 207 , January 1979 , pp. 71 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1979

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References

1 Buber, Martin, I and Thou, translated by Smith, R. G., (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1937), 75Google Scholar. All quotations, unless otherwise stated, are from this work.

2 Critique of Pure Reason, translated by Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (London: Bell & Sons, 1908), xxvii.Google Scholar

3 The Elusive Mind (London: Macmillan, 1969), 262ff.Google Scholar

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5 Cf. in this connection, Buber, 's remarks on artistic creation, pp. 9f.Google Scholar

6 Cf. Wittgenstein, 's comments on ‘the same’, e.g. in Philosophical Investigations, Part I, 215ff.Google Scholar, and the developments of these by Pitcher, George in ‘About the Same’, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy and Language, ed. by Ambrose, and Lazerowitz, (London: Allen & Unwin, 1972), 121ff.Google Scholar; and Winch, Peter, The Idea of a Social Science (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958), 27ff.Google Scholar

7 Translated by Smith, R. G. (London: Kegan Paul, 1947), 14.Google Scholar