Dialog z Innym wywiedziony z filozofii spotkania

meeting Abstract : In the last couple of decades the term ‘dialogue’ as a communication category has been used increasingly more often, to the extent of being overused. As migration processes intensify and multiculturalism becomes more widespread, the belief in the importance and indispensability of dialogue gains ground. The popular use of dialogue causes it to lose its notional preciseness. Employed by ev-eryone, everywhere and for every occasion, dialogue increasingly becomes a syn-onym for ordinary conversation or even for a dispute. I have therefore considered it proper to seek, within the realm of the philosophy of encounter, the framework for the structure of dialogue and the conditions that would be to need to be fulfilled for, as Martin Buber intended it, the dialogue to dialogue to be authentic. The article attempts to show how important an ethical attitude, understood as the foundation of interpersonal agreement, is in the dialogical contact with the Other. Dialogue is presented as a difficult and demanding framework which is, at the same time, possible and indeed