God as “Eternal Thou”. Martin Buber’s Dialogical Philosophy of God

Karol Jasiński – doktor nauk humanistycznych, adiunkt w Katedrze Filozofii i Kultury Chrześcijańskiej Wydziału Teologii Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie, email – karoljasinski@op.plThe paper concerns Martin Buber’s idea of God as “eternal Thou”. This concept is typical of the dialogical phase of his philosophy. His inspiration came from religion (judaism and christianity). First of all, for Buber, God is a mystery. The main purpose of man was the entrance into the existential relationship with the revealing God, who was described as “eternal Thou”, “absolute Person” and “Ground of being”. A man can dialogue with Him through the different beings. Buber’s ideas are very close to panentheism. In Buber’s work we have the problem of the “becoming” God. The solution of this question is not on the ontological level but on the moral one – God “becomes” through the dialogical life of the man in the world