What is the proper way to engage with the natural world? Should we conquer nature by constantly building, inventing, and overcoming every possible obstacle to our success, gaining ever-increasing dominion over nature? Should we aim to traverse every distance, cure every disease, and explore every molecule? Or, perhaps, more humility is in order. We are, after all, created beings. Should we approach nature with the understanding that we will never fully understand? Should we focus instead on overcoming ourselves and the vices that exist in our own hearts and minds? Can we ignore the fact that neither scientific knowledge nor technological mastery can fulfill our basic human longing to belong? In this course we will explore these questions with the guidance of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. In his classic essay, The Lonely Man of Faith, Rabbi Soloveitchik seeks to understand the dual nature of man through an incisive study of the first two chapters of the book of Genesis.