...model presupposes as its goal a language of consensus, communality, and even identification, in which "one claims to express the other's claim and even...understand the other better than the other understands [him- or herself]." In the "I-Thou" relationship proposed by Gadamer, "the important thing is ... to...

...model presupposes as its goal a language of consensus, communality, and even identification, in which 'one claims to express the other's claim and even...understand the other better than the other understands [him or herself]'. In the 'I-Thou' relationship proposed by Gadamer, 'the important thing is ... to...

...model presupposes as its goal a language of consensus, communality, and even identification, in which "one claims to express the other's claim and even...understand the other better than the other understands [him or herself]." In the "IThou" relationship proposed by Gadamer, "the important thing is ... to...

...italics mine), and not perceived as an intraworldly object. Gadamer explains this specificity as follows: This relation is not immediate but reflective. To...relationship reflectively to outdo the other. One claims to know the other's claim from his point of view and even to understand the other better than the other...

...this form of intentionality toward the other—any other—as the "educative relationship," whereby "one claims to express the other's claim and even...other better than the other understands himself," and thereby "seeks to calculate how the other person will behave." He calls this "the dialectic of...

...acknowledgment the understanding of the Thou is still a form of self-relatedness. Such self-regard derives from the dialectical appearance that the dialectic...reflective. To every claim there is a counterclaim. That is why it is possible for each of the partners in the relationship reflectively to outdo the other....