A Philosophy of Dialogue as an Anthropology. In the Circle of Buber’s Ideas

Abstrakt

Dialogical thinking is a compositum of three stratums: anthropological, ethical, and theological (otherwise known as metaphysical). The distinguished meaning of the former is associated with the primacy of what Martin Buber calls “the problem of man”. It also encompasses moral and metaphysical issues. A human, however, is not absolutized here, but is the starting point and destination of the dialogue thought. It appears therefore it cannot be considered a pure (or typical) anthropology. It is rather a kind of anthropoethics and anthropotheology (theology of man and anthropology of God). An interesting example of such an approach is Buberian dialogue. In this article I argue for the possibility of interpreting it as an anthropology.