'Humans and Transcendence'

'Viktor Frankl wrote, Dostoevsky said once, in that respect is only unitary thing that I dread: non to be sacred of my scummys. These words ofttimes came to my mind after(prenominal) I became present with those martyrs whose behaviors in camp, whose suffering and death, bore understand to the fact that the fail inner immunity laughingstocknot be los. It is this uncanny abandondom-which cannot be taken a way-that makes life besotteding(prenominal) and purposeful (Frankl 33). When we ask, What does it mean to be compassionate? We are tossed into an historic discourse that takes the energy of reason and the unfading search for pleasure as points of sack for defining a human being.\nPhilosophers including Aristotle, Kant, and Nietzsche apiece addressed these questions, and despite their specific differences seemed to pay back at a similar destruction: that the definition of world involves the will to reason. Viktor Frankl seems to mellow these various propositi ons into an knowledgeable expression establish on native and conscientious freedom. For Frankl, spectral freedom itself defines a meaningful life. This includes the efficiency to find comforter in the memorialization of the past inwardly the presence of wicked conditions, and an undying smell in the indicator of love. Yet for the purposes of this paper, a human is be by the business leader to will somebodyistic happiness with the avenue of reason, in whatever way it manifests for each soulfulness based on their lesson values.\nIn Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant formulates that individual freedom can be attain through and through moral law which is give over to gentleman a priori through reason. Acting in accordance with the imperative moral tenet is freeing because it releases individuals from the causes of sensation which are not predicated on free will. By savoury with and celebrating Kants thought of ought-ness, freedom is illuminate in each instance. For our lives are not determined by individual or momentary remote circumstances, ...'