In Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, Ben Shattuck conjures an I-Thou engagement with the Massachusetts transcendentalist. It can also occur between humans and other living things. The encountered one need not even be aware of the encounter what matters is that one subject relates to another subject with openness and honesty.
It is instead a relationship of true connection, recognition, and appreciation. As opposed to an Ich-Es “(“I-It”) encounter, Ich-Du does not involve a sense of purpose, evaluation, or even analysis. He calls one form of relationship with the world Ich-Du - “I-You,” or more commonly “I-Thou.” An I-Thou relationship occurs when two beings meet without any objectification of each other-whether they are lovers or strangers. In his 1923 treatise Ich und Du, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber argues that human existence fundamentally revolves around engagement with the world.
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