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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: www.free-will.de
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