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Towards Fuller Relationships – Part 2

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By Ran Lahav

As we have seen in Part 1, Buber’s book I and Thou discusses our relations to others. It tells us that our relations are usually “I-It” relations—distant, partial, fragmented, pragmatic. This happens when we analyze other people, when we examine them, use them, guess what they have in mind, and so on. At those times, we do not live fully, authentically.

Sometimes, however, we have a fuller kind of

 

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Martin Buber (1878—1965)
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Towards Fuller Relationships – Part 1

By Ran Lahav

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Seeking Wisdom: Listening to the Other
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In his search for wisdom the elephant meets the giraffe, the tallest and wisest of animals.

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Current Topic:  Martin Buber, Towards fuller Relationships 

Martin Buber:  I-You and I-It 

Martin Buber:  I-You

Reflections on Buber

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Towards fuller Relationships 1
Buber's Text 1 (+ video)
 

 Towards fuller Relationships 2
   Buber's Text 2 (+ video)
  

  Plato and Stepping out of the Cave

Plato's Republic

Personal  Reflections

Exercise

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Plato's Republic
 The Allegory of the Cave

Plato´s Symposium
Transformation through love

  
VIDEO: A Journey to the completely other Exercise (text): Towards the essence of everything

 

 Nietzsche and Self-Overcoming

Nietzsche's The Gay Science

Personal  Reflections

Exercise

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Will and Wave
Nietzsche's Text 2

Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Nietzsche's Text 1

 VIDEO: Ran Lahav's commentary
 Exercise (text): Nietzsche’s Child

 

Marcus Aurelius, Freedom and Reason 

Marcus Aurelius' Meditation

Personal  Reflections

Exercise

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Marcus Aurelius' text Ran Lahav's commentary:
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 Exercise Marcus Aurelius’ Stoic Exercise

 Henry Bergson and the Inner Self

Bergson's Time and Free Will

Personal  Reflections

Exercise

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Video: Bergson's text VIDEO: Ran Lahav's commentary VIDEO:   Contemplating on Bergson's Intuition

Personal Story: Scott meets Bergson Contemplating on Bergson's Intuition

 

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 Karl Jaspers and re-possessing the self

 Jasper's Way to Wisdom

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Personal Reflections

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Personal Stories

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VIDEO: Karl Jasper's text

VIDEO: Jaspers on Boundary Situations 


VIDEO: Ran Lahav's commentary

Professor Iddo Landau
(Haifa University - Israel)
VIDEO: Comment on Karl Jaspers' text

Dr. Ronny Miron:
Jaspers and Boundary Situations

VIDEO: Angus: Breaking up and self-remembering

Noemi Harari:
Philosophical Life

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