ABSTRACT
The life of human beings is not passed in the sphere of transitive verbs alone. Brushing up on some elementary rules of English usage could help people better understand what Buber means by living in the sphere of transitive verbs. Immediately after having been created, Adam and Eve may be assumed to have been harmoniously interrelated in a pristine I-Thou relationship, where both desire the same thing as the other at all times, and there is no discord. Admittedly, they do not actually seem to have desires as such: they simply do everything that God tells them and nothing else, without seeming to realize that there is any other option. Kant concedes the story's intrinsic advantage over irresponsible quasi-scientific conjectures regarding man's beginnings: human reason simply cannot derive "the existence of man" from prior natural causes. Genesis is also perfectly applicable to ethical theory, which assumes the moral agent to be an adult capable of making his own decisions.
