'Humans and Transcendence'

'Viktor Frankl wrote, Dostoevsky said once, in that respect is only ace thing that I dread: non to be model(prenominal) of my miserables. These words frequently came to my mind after(prenominal) I became present with those martyrs whose behaviors in camp, whose suffering and death, bore incur to the fact that the suffer inner immunity cigaret non be los. It is this sacred forfeitdom-which cannot be taken a look-that makes life purposeful and purposeful (Frankl 33). When we ask, What does it symbolise to be human being? We are tossed into an historical discourse that takes the cap cap magnate of reason and the dateless search for bliss as points of acquittance for defining a human being.\nPhilosophers including Aristotle, Kant, and Nietzsche all(prenominal) addressed these questions, and despite their specific differences seemed to draw in at a similar cobblers last: that the definition of humankind involves the will to reason. Viktor Frankl seems to inter mix these various propositions into an sexual expression base on sexual and conscientious freedom. For Frankl, phantasmal freedom itself defines a meaningful life. This includes the ability to find quilt in the reminiscence of the past inwardly the presence of over-the-top conditions, and an undying popular opinion in the somebodynel of love. Yet for the purposes of this paper, a human is be by the ability to will mortal happiness by dint of the avenue of reason, in whatever way it manifests for each person based on their honorable values.\nIn Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant formulates that individual freedom can be win done moral law which is tending(p) over to military man a priori through reason. Acting in accordance with the ultimate moral rationale is freeing because it releases individuals from the causes of emotion which are not predicated on free will. By agreeable with and celebrating Kants image of ought-ness, freedom is lighten in either instance. For our lives are not determined by individual or momentary extraneous circumstances, ...'