Dialogue and Relationship in Art and Teaching

Abstract

Through a philosophy of dialogue, Martin Buber elucidates the interactions and relationships occurring between man and the world. Buber talks about two modes of relationships or two attitudes in man; the I-It and the I-You attitudes. In the I-It attitude, a subject-object attitude, a human relates to his world by gathering, classifying, analyzing, and discriminating information. Perception, feeling, imagination, thought, knowledge, and sensation best describe this attitude of ABOUT something...