Empathy and Buber’s I-thou contact
I do not fully agree with Schmid’s implication that empathy is about “try(ing) to understand, as exactly as possible, the accurate meaning of what goes on inside another person in the very moment”....
Martin Buber
Notes: The Other as Extended Self vs. I-Thou. Bakhtin and Buber.
The *I-position *does not limit itself to the internal domain of the self. e.g. I am a piano player, I as a father. We extend our selves into society through (what looks like our roles) "my father",...