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Relating To The "I And Thou"

            
             In the book entitled "I and Thou" written by Martin Buber translated by Walter Kaufmann he is explaining the importance of "I and Thou" as everyone being obsessed with what they can have or obtain instead of what they can become spiritually. Buber believes that if you see yourself in everything than you can be one with yourself. Buber says " There are men who hardly have an I at all" (Kaufmann, pg 12) I believe by this he means that one does not pay enough attention to ones self to know how to treat or be treated by others.
             People of today are more concerned about what they can obtain physically. People are not as concerned about what they can obtain spiritually for ones self. Buber says it in this quote " Some inhabit worlds in which objects loom large" (Kaufmann, pg 12). I believe Buber is saying that people are more obsessed with what they know than what they can learn from what they know. Here you see that we may have a group of people who are solid in knowledge but do they really know whom they are deep with in their center of being? Buber himself believes this also as stated in this quote " Here we have a community of solid scholars- so solid that there is no room at the center for any core." (Kaufmann, pg 13).
             Buber also states that people can go through life with out ever knowing who they really are. They are just mere shells existing as people who are here living but do not know what there true existence is, as stated in this quote by Buber " this is an orientation in which I does not exist, and You and It and He and She are only shadows" (Kaufmann, pg 13) They have yet to learn that there is more to life than just working to exist and obtain objects. People do not understand that we are not just an "I" that we are all one and to be true to ones self you have to be true to everyone and everything around you. The reason being that we are all one in the same and we should treat each other how we are selves would want to be treated.


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