Module 12: Where Next?

Potential Buber once wrote that he had no “teaching,” by which he meant that his work did not try to convince people of an academic argument, but instead simply existed to “point to something in reality that had not or had too little been seen.”1 The relational dimension of human existence to which Buber pointed, and which we have explored in this analysis lies, on his account, beyond formal reasoning, measurement, or classification. It is not an item of knowledge to be held in the mind, like an abstract fact, but something that must be acted upon and lived out if it is to be known.