Excerpt from a letter to Ken Wilber:

The system of four quadrants is a workable concept to put worldviews in an order, I think. Anyway, the reduction from second person to first person plural ignores the essential quality of a dialogue: When I say "you", I do not mean "we", and I also do not mean "I" or "he". These are mere aspects of the "you". The main point is the change of perspective as such, that creates the dialogue, the perception of another individual as itself and so the second-person view. I change my viewpoint to the viewpoint of the other (partly at least) and come back to a new own one and so forth.

Because this change underlies all the other quadrant views (you are only "he", when I am mainly I), it could be the quadrant in the middle or the big one beneath/encompassing the other ones.

Claus Janew

May 13, 2003 

(unanswered)

Added on March 8, 2009:
To accept the second-person view as an underlying quadrant, first everything has to be accepted as "you" by interchanging individual positions.

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