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2. I thou  One challenge to relativism and pluralism is to recognize that all people (moral agents) have an ‘apriori’ moral obligation to all living things that ‘feel pain’. (moral patients) 2

3. I thou  An a priori obligation is the claim that moral agents have an obligation to a set of moral patients before anything is experienced. 3

4. I Thou  Levinas's thesis "ethics as first philosophy", then, means that the traditional philosophical pursuit of knowledge is secondary to a basic ethical duty to the other. 4

5. I Thou  Levinas argued that although the obligation precedes any event, how the obligation is honoured will depend on the culture and the situation. 5

6. I and Thou  Ich und Du, usually translated as I and Thou, is a book by Martin Buber, published in 1923, and first translated to English in 1937. 6

7. I and Thou  Buber uses two pairs of words to describe two fundamentally different types of relationship: "I-Thou" and "I-It." 7

8. I and Thou  What does it mean when a person experiences the world? We either perceive “I-It” experiences or “I thou” relations. 8

9. I and Thou For "I-It" relationships, the "It" refers to entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set. 9

10. I and Thou By contrast, the "I" in the "I- Thou" is a separate concept. This is the "I" that does not objectify any "It" but rather acknowledges a living relationship instead. 10

11. I and Thou  Every sentence man uses with I, refers to the two pairs: I-Thou and I-It. 11

12. I and It Buber uses an example of a tree and presents five separate relations. 1 Aesthetic Perception 2 Perception as movement 12

13. I It 3. Categorising by type 4. Perspective 5. Interpreting in mathematical terms 13

14. I and Thou  If "Thou" is used in the context of an encounter with a human being, the human being is not He, She, or bound by anything. 14

15. I and Thou  Love is a subject-to-subject relationship.  The ultimate Thou is God. 15

16. I and Thou The individual’s action is guided by I-Thou. "One who truly meets the world goes out also to God." 16

17. I and Thou Coincidentally, Buber's I and Thou (Ich und Du) was published in the same year as Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id (Das Ich und das Es lit. "The I and the It"). 17

18. Bibliography  Buber, Martin (1947; 2002). Between Man and Man. Routledge. pp. 250–251.  Buber, Martin (2005) [1954]. "We Need The Arabs, They Need Us!". in Paul Mendes-Flohr (ed.). A Land of Two Peoples. University of Chicago. ISBN 0-226-07802-7.  Buber, Martin; Schmidt, Gilya Gerda: The First Buber: Youthful Zionist Writings of Martin Buber (Martin Buber Library), 256 pp., Syracuse University Press, 1999 ISBN 0815605757  Buber, Martin; Buber-Agassi, Judith: Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters and Dialogue (Martin Buber Library), Syracuse University Press, 1999 ISBN 081560582X  Shapira, Avraham; Green, Jeffrey: Hope for Our Time: Key Trends in the Thought of Martin Buber (Suny Series in Judaica, Hermeneutics, Mysticism and Religion), State University of New York Press, 1999, $65.50 ISBN 0791441253  Avnon, Dan: Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue (Twentieth Century Political Thinkers), 256 pp., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999, $63 ISBN 0847686876  1994, Scripture and translation. Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig; translated by Lawrence Rosenwald with Everett Fox. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  1999a, The first Buber: youthful Zionist writings of Martin Buber, edited and translated from the German by Gilya G. Schmidt. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press.  1999b, Martin Buber on psychology and psychotherapy: essays, letters, and dialogue, edited by Judith Buber Agassi ; with a foreword by Paul Roazin. New York: Syracuse University Press.  1999c, Gog and Magog: a novel, translated from the German by Ludwig Lewisohn. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.  2002a, The legend of the Baal-Shem, translated by Maurice Friedman. London: Routledge.  2002b, Between man and man, translated by Ronald Gregor-Smith; with an introduction by Maurice Friedman. London, New York: Routledge.  2002c, The way of man: according to the teaching of Hasidim, London: Routledge.  2002d, The Martin Buber reader: essential writings, edited by Asher D. Biemann. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 18