Individuality makes its appearance by being differentiated from other individualities.

A person makes his appearance by entering into relation with other persons. The one is a spiritual form of natural detachment, the other the spiritual form of natural solidarity and connexion.

The aim of self-differentiation is to experience and to use, and the aim of these is “life,” that is, dying that lasts the span of a man’s life.

The aim of relation is relation’s own being, that is, contact with the Thou. For through contact with every Thou we are stirred with a breath of the Thou, that is, of eternal life.

- Martin Buber, I and Thou

Originally posted on r/lawofone_philosophy.

Individuality makes its appearance by being differentiated from other individualities.

A person makes his appearance by entering into relation with other persons. The one is a spiritual form of natural detachment, the other the spiritual form of natural solidarity and connexion.

The aim of self-differentiation is to experience and to use, and the aim of these is “life,” that is, dying that lasts the span of a man’s life.

The aim of relation is relation’s own being, that is, contact with the Thou. For through contact with every Thou we are stirred with a breath of the Thou, that is, of eternal life.

- Martin Buber, I and Thou

Originally posted on r/lawofone_philosophy.