Religious Studies 3A03 / Philosophy 3J03 (Fall 2004): MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT
After reading carefully the selection from Martin Buber's I and Thou, please address the questions below in 1-2 well-written paragraphs each.
As for past Text Preparation assignments, since this is your first reading of the texts, and since we have not yet discussed them in class, you needn't aim for definitive answers but preliminary, thoughtful responses based on detailed textual evidence. You may also include 1-2 important questions raised by your reading for further discussion.Please use parenthetical page references for your quotations and citations. Please type and double-space your answers, and number and staple the pages you hand in.
Please keep a copy of your quiz to refer to in class.
1. What might it mean for the I/You relation to be "exclusive"? (Be sure to take account of how this concept plays out both in Part I and in Part III (for the relation to the "eternal Thou").
2. What does it mean for the I/You encounter to be "reciprocal"? How does Buber reflect this quality of the encounter in his discussion of the relation to God in Part III?
posted October 20, 2004