Word: buber
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...There comes a time in a man's life," says Philosopher Martin Buber, "when he should begin to bring the crop into the barn." In Buber's case, the harvest includes a goodly share of the honors the world pays to a man who has thought deeply and originally. Last week, at the age of 85, frail, white-bearded Philosopher Buber flew from Israel to Amsterdam to accept one of Europe's highest intellectual prizes: the $28,000 Erasmus Award, presented to one or more persons who have contributed to the spiritual unity of Europe.* The award...
Zionists & Mystics. Buber was born in Vienna, but grew up, after his parents' divorce, in the home of his grandfather in Austrian Galicia. Devoutly observant as a child, Buber gave up Jewish religious practice at the age of 13, and came strongly under the influence of German idealism and phenomenology as a student of philosophy at Vienna University. Buber was an active Zionist, and for several years he worked closely with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German...
...chief fighter for the traditional, "experimental" Sarah Lawrence approach is Maurice S. Friedman, a large, soft, heavy-set philosophy teacher with an unflinching faith in Martin Buber. Friedman was delighted to discuss the educational philosophy which for him has become almost a religion...
...deciding what courses will be given and how, teachers share responsibility for the school's tone. Friedman's classes stress "dialogue" and "interaction of teacher and student"--terms which he savoured continually while discussing Buber's edu-educational theory. But another, more traditional teacher, might make his course as conventional as he chose. And more and more, as the faculty expands, the college acquires the latter breed...
Bedtime for Israel's most distinguished philosopher, Martin Buber, is 10 o'clock. But his 85th birthday was an exception. At the stroke of 11, some 400 students from the Hebrew University, where he taught before his retirement, paraded up Jerusalem's Lovers of Zion Street to the door of Buber's villa, carrying torches and singing in Hebrew "For Martin's a jolly good fellow." On the veranda, a pretty coed garlanded the white-whiskered Hasidic sage with flowers and soundly bussed his cheek. "What?" asked Buber with a merry twinkle. "Is there only...