Humans and Transcendence

Viktor Frankl wrote, Dostoevsky said once, There is except one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my distraints. These words much came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behaviors in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the item that the last inner license corporationnot be los. It is this spiritual granting immunity-which cannot be taken away-that makes life important and purposeful (Frankl 33). When we ask, What does it mean to be humans? We are tossed into an historic discourse that takes the faculty of lawsuit and the endless search for merriment as points of departure for shaping a human being.\nPhilosophers including Aristotle, Kant, and Nietzsche all(prenominal) addressed these questions, and despite their limited differences seemed to arrive at a similar conclusion: that the rendering of humanness involves the will to reason. Viktor Frankl seems to conflate these various propositions into an subjective preparation b ased on internal and conscientious granting immunity. For Frankl, spiritual freedom itself defines a meaningful life. This includes the magnate to find solace in the remembrance of the past inwardly the presence of ungodly conditions, and an perpetual belief in the business leader of love. Yet for the purposes of this paper, a human is defined by the aptitude to will individual comfort through the avenue of reason, in whatever way it manifests for each person based on their virtuous values.\nIn introduction for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant formulates that individual freedom can be attained through moral law which is abandoned over to humans a priori through reason. Acting in accordance with the supreme moral principle is freeing because it releases individuals from the causes of sensation which are not predicated on free will. By piquant with and celebrating Kants concept of ought-ness, freedom is illuminated in every instance. For our lives are not heady by individu al or momentary external circumstances, ...