{"id":132,"date":"2010-04-10T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=132"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T12:33:14","slug":"ich-du-and-ich-es","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2010\/04\/ich-du-and-ich-es\/","title":{"rendered":"Ich-Du and Ich-Es"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Buber\">Martin Buber &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the Ich-Es relationship, an<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong> individual<\/strong> treats <strong>other things<\/strong>, people, etc., as <strong>objects<\/strong> to be<strong> used and experienced<\/strong>.<\/span> Essentially, this form of objectivity relates to the world in terms of the self &#8211; <strong>how an object can serve the individual\u2019s interest.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Buber argued that human life consists of an oscillation between Ich-Du and Ich-Es, and that in fact Ich-Du experiences are rather few and far between. In diagnosing the various perceived ills of modernity (e.g. isolation, dehumanization, etc.), Buber believed that the <strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">expansion of a purely analytic, material view of existence was at heart an advocation of Ich-Es relations<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; even between human beings. Buber argued that this paradigm devalued not only existents, but the meaning of all existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Buber &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the Ich-Es relationship, an individual treats other things, people, etc., as objects to be used and experienced. Essentially, this form of objectivity relates to the world in terms of the self &#8211; how an object can serve the individual\u2019s interest.&nbsp; Buber argued that human life consists of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ich-es"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}