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29.02.2016
When I was in college, we had philosophy. It, of course, everyone scored - Saturday, the first couple, but I went - the teacher was good, and the promised machine was not superfluous.
And one Saturday morning, he started a couple with a lecture about relationships:
There are two types of relationships: object-subject and subject-subject.
The first type is the most common, is the relationship in which a person knows the other through a set of actions and responses to them. Such relationships are also characteristic of “friendship by interest.” That is, you and your visavi, which you need, as long as it has certain characteristics and meets the requirements. If they are broken, the relationship ends.
And there is also a relationship of the second type - subject-subject. These are relations of the highest order. There is no difference between you and your partner. You are in balance. You both have the same problems, the same victories. There are no boundaries or conditions. This type of relationship exists only in two cases: faith and love.
Give me a definition of love! Distributed from the back. Ask a cavernous humanitarian question that requires certainty and specificity, a favorite fun in technical universities.
“Let’s start with the word “definition,” without any confusion, the teacher continued. To give a definition means to “pre-empt”, that is, to set a limit. Or another border. The more boundaries, the more accurate the definition.
A line appeared on the board. Then another and another, until there is a multi-angle.
But once you draw at least one boundary, you separate yourself from your lover. You go into the object-subject relationship. The more boundaries there are, the farther you are from each other. There is no definition of love. And will never be.
There was no highest silence, no one rushed to record convulsively, there was nothing that could be inherent in revelation. There was only an uneven multi-angle on the board. But I remembered that moment for many years. And I can say that this was the most important lecture in my entire course of technical training.