PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Emil Fackenheim
14 Mar 2014
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How the transcendent can ground a meaning of life: the commandment relationship. Fackenheim attempts to address this issue. In judaism god accepts and confirms man by commanding him in his humanity [ ]. (32- 33) In this way, we know that we always have a partner in life. The god of judaism is no deistic first cause which, having caused the world, goes into perpetual retirement. Neither is he a law- giver who, having given the laws, leaves man to respond in human solitariness. Along with the commandment, handed over for human action, goes the promise of divine action. And because divine action makes itself contingent upon human action, a relationship of mutuality is established. God gives to man a covenant that is, a contract; he binds himself by its terms and becomes a partner. (33) Divine love has made the covenant indestructible. (34) In other words, such times of divine farness do not mean that _________________________________
