Buber's
philosophy of dialogue not only finds the narrow ridge between the subjectivist identification and the objectivist sundering of the «is» and the «ought,» but it also radically shifts the
whole ground of
ethical discussion by moving from the universal to the concrete and from the past to the present — in other words, from I - It to I - Thou.
This
whole debacle reminds me of when Chipotle changed their bags to state their
philosophy of «Food With Integrity» and focused on the pig, and Chipotle's FB page was inundated by high school and college kids who plastered its walls with endless postings about their so - called
ethical treatment of their factory farmed pigs.