Humans differ from all other creatures because of their rational structure - their capacity ... God is to recognize the special qualities of human nature which allow God to be made manifest ...

The philosopher Immanuel Kant said that rational human beings should be treated as an end in themselves and not as a means to something else. The fact that we are human has value in itself.

Dostoevsky would have detested the city of Philadelphia. In many ways, the city exemplifies everything that he hated about the West in general; problems ...