According to Guardini, the Jewish-Christian tradition has generated two notions or models of person. One model presents a person as a “knowing and acting subject."in part by the ability to relate to oneself as an "I." A person is an indimvidual who knows both the exhilaration and the burden of standing alone, making decisions, and bearing their consequences. But by itself this notion does not fully express the complexity of what it is to be a person. It must be complemented by the model of person as a social being. In this view, being a person entails "I-thou" relationships;