Martain Buber : His Fundamental Philosophy and Educational Thought

Contents: Introduction. 1. The back-ground of Buber\'s philosophy. 2. Fundamental philosophy of Buber. 3. Buber\'s educational thought. 4. Criticism on Buber\'s philosophy. 5. Criticism on Buber\'s educational thought. 6. Significance of Buber\'s philosophy and educational thought. Bibliography.

"Martin Buber (1878-1965) and internationally acclaimed German Philosopher, had brought to focus a new revolutionary trend in the field of philosophy and education. He excelled in dealing with the existential problems of the reality from the existential philosophers of repute like Kierkgaard, Nietzech, Dosto-evsky and Sartre. His basic thrust is, salvation of the modern age form its chaotic conditions is in the uplifting of the dialogical relations i.e. inter human relations at the concrete level of the date to day lived in life of the people.

The fundamental aim of education, Buber stresses that, should be in developing the humanners in the youth that could be attained mainly though inter human relations, which is utterly lacking in both the traditional and modern education. There is an urgent and great need of this aim to be adopted in the present educational systems to develop an ideal society of co-operative, peaceful and happy co-existence." (jacket)