,,,My being awakened to liberty and self-choice, unconditioned being-oneself, is the doing of another, like in salvation. In any case, my unconditioned self is oriented towards unconditioned selves, requires and seeks communication with them; my uniqueness is elicited by and requres the uniqueness of others, and is otherwise unthinkable. Being-oneself is not real without communication, just as empty liberty is not real without manifesting itself in choice.
,,,My liberty posits and requires the liberty of everyone else. The magic formula is ; "I will that each other shall be what I strive to become, that he be himself in sincerity and in truth." This appeal to the other is accompanied by self-revelation without reserve ; one dares 'to be naked' before the other ; the formalities, conventions, and reserves of ordinary intercourse are inappropriate to communication at the level of being-oneself. One becomes oneself and brings the other to himself in thus opening oneself to him. For this communication is not the sharing of what is in common but insistence upon the authentic singularity of each. It is therefore conflict, but a 'loving struggle', the struggle of beings who recognize themselves as united but have as a condition of their reality to assert and maintain their difference and to question and challenge themselves and each other.
,,,The truth of each is the truth of himself and for him there is no alternative, his uniqueness is a vital assimilation and affirmation which is his alone ; there is no truth, but there is the truth of others. The 'loving struggle' of communication is the corrective of the unavoidable arbitrariness in this necessary solitude of truth.
,,,Existences are linked by reason and in communiation strive to bring themselves to the unity which they have by faith. The separation is never wholly overcome ; truth remains invincibly multiple, a conflict of absolute not a totality of perspective, a call to being-oneself and to communicate not a form of knowledge, for the total object of knowledge is lost in transcendence which cannot be apprehended in its unity. Here again, therefore, there is frustration ; but no relaxation of the effort to communicate. Communication is between persons who participate in a common world order and collaborate in common tasks which humanize relations between individuals, but communication does not reside in this intercourse, it springs from it. The other is properly constituted for me as a person by my being fully myself, that is, communication is in the world of being-oneself. Otherwise, he is another one like me and all others, an object and a means, a figure in the world, a rational consciousness equivalent with every other, and one who interests me only in so far as we envisage a common object or form a common thought universally valid or participate in a common society. This objectification of communication is like the objectification which reduces the ;\'thou' to a 'he' ; it forms the substration from which true communication may rise and to which it may sink.
,,,Love, 'the absolute consciousness in its plenitude', is always possible, and always desired by the person awakened to being-oneself. Ideas which claim objective validity pass away, but 'there are always the men/ladies with whom I am or can be in communication, and with them what is for me authentic being stands firm'.
,,,However, communication is not limited to comtemporaries physically encountered ; it is possible to seek and to touch authentic being-oneself in history, not necessarily the men/ladies of external greatness and success, but the men/ladies of faith, love, and imagination who move and call me to become myself.
,,,indeed, communication, the most essential of existential tasks, it is the most precious and the most fragile of all possible achievements. You, me can make it or break it, if we are not careful about it, so lets communicate objectively.....hi, hello there ?.
,,,My liberty posits and requires the liberty of everyone else. The magic formula is ; "I will that each other shall be what I strive to become, that he be himself in sincerity and in truth." This appeal to the other is accompanied by self-revelation without reserve ; one dares 'to be naked' before the other ; the formalities, conventions, and reserves of ordinary intercourse are inappropriate to communication at the level of being-oneself. One becomes oneself and brings the other to himself in thus opening oneself to him. For this communication is not the sharing of what is in common but insistence upon the authentic singularity of each. It is therefore conflict, but a 'loving struggle', the struggle of beings who recognize themselves as united but have as a condition of their reality to assert and maintain their difference and to question and challenge themselves and each other.
,,,The truth of each is the truth of himself and for him there is no alternative, his uniqueness is a vital assimilation and affirmation which is his alone ; there is no truth, but there is the truth of others. The 'loving struggle' of communication is the corrective of the unavoidable arbitrariness in this necessary solitude of truth.
,,,Existences are linked by reason and in communiation strive to bring themselves to the unity which they have by faith. The separation is never wholly overcome ; truth remains invincibly multiple, a conflict of absolute not a totality of perspective, a call to being-oneself and to communicate not a form of knowledge, for the total object of knowledge is lost in transcendence which cannot be apprehended in its unity. Here again, therefore, there is frustration ; but no relaxation of the effort to communicate. Communication is between persons who participate in a common world order and collaborate in common tasks which humanize relations between individuals, but communication does not reside in this intercourse, it springs from it. The other is properly constituted for me as a person by my being fully myself, that is, communication is in the world of being-oneself. Otherwise, he is another one like me and all others, an object and a means, a figure in the world, a rational consciousness equivalent with every other, and one who interests me only in so far as we envisage a common object or form a common thought universally valid or participate in a common society. This objectification of communication is like the objectification which reduces the ;\'thou' to a 'he' ; it forms the substration from which true communication may rise and to which it may sink.
,,,Love, 'the absolute consciousness in its plenitude', is always possible, and always desired by the person awakened to being-oneself. Ideas which claim objective validity pass away, but 'there are always the men/ladies with whom I am or can be in communication, and with them what is for me authentic being stands firm'.
,,,However, communication is not limited to comtemporaries physically encountered ; it is possible to seek and to touch authentic being-oneself in history, not necessarily the men/ladies of external greatness and success, but the men/ladies of faith, love, and imagination who move and call me to become myself.
,,,indeed, communication, the most essential of existential tasks, it is the most precious and the most fragile of all possible achievements. You, me can make it or break it, if we are not careful about it, so lets communicate objectively.....hi, hello there ?.
