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1. In the first reading, Charles Malik claims that the struggle for peace begins at the level of each individual person, since each person must first struggle with the idea of being and becoming. The struggle takes place because we recognize a tension between the value of our being and the expression that we give this through the actions we take in our lives, thus determining who and what we become. The struggle is rooted in the very being of man himself, but it can be resolved only when man makes peace with the reality of who he is. Malik writes: "Man struggles for peace, and for other things too, because he is essentially a struggling-caring being - struggling and caring, above everything else, for the integrity of his being."

2. Buber's essay "I-Thou" recognizes that the value of an individual is revealed through his relationships with others. An "I-Thou" relationship is characterized by the recognition that the objective value I find in myself is also the objective value that I see in the other. This objective affirmation of value enables a truly subjective experience; in objectively affirming the other, my own subjective value is also affirmed. This experience of subjectivity thus gains an objective reality when the value of the person is experienced and affirmed. objective value persuasive?

1.What is the relationship between the nature of man as a "struggling-caring" being, and the "I-Thou " relationship that Buber speaks of? Can the struggle that Malik identifies be resolved at some level through the experience of mutual subjectivity?