In all this, the very capacity to have consciousness is based on otherness. Bakthin said For in order to see our selves, we must appropriate the vision of the other . The self exists because , for , and thanks to the other. Yet, one more clarification is needed. The dialogical dialogue I here propose supposes that we are believing and relational being, and that reality need not be dialectical, coherent, logical, and objective.
Interlocutors are both human beings who know in a never-ending, indefinite process.
One must not, however, take dialogical dialogue for dialectical dialogue. Dialectical dialogue supposes that we are rational beings, and that our knowledge and awareness are governed above all by the principle of non-contradiction. It is easy today think of the term dialectical as something that refers to a close relation between thinking and being, hence as a technique where the power of judgement is strengthened. In a dialectical dialogue the affirmation of reason, and the evaluation of other people s life prevail. A dialogical dialogue, for its beauty and the grace of its principles, requires many efforts.