“GENUINE EDUCATION” IN MARTIN BUBER’S PHILOSOPHY OF DIALOGUE
ABSTRACT. In the work Ich und Du (1923) the Austrian philosopher Martin Buber propounds and elaborates the theses of his ‘philosophy of dialogue’, focusing in particular on a perspective hinged on the themes of dialogue, relation, and encounter. Starting from his famous distinction between the ‘I-It’ relation and the ‘I-Thou’ relation, Buber highlights how in education the dynamics of the relationship between the educator, the pupil, and the world need to follow the dialogical principle in order to fully develop in a productive and genuine way. If this principle is performed by a continuous mutual action between the ‘genuine educator’ and the student, it can contribute to the creation of ‘genuine education’, which is characterised by a sound axiological, teleological, and maieutic-creative statute that allows for the understanding of the close link existing ‘between’ the goal of the ‘individual’ and the goal of the ‘community’ in the dynamic dimension of ‘us’.