Robert Kolb “The function of the human being is the active exercise of the soul’s faculties in conformity with rationality … What is good for the human being is the active exercise of the soul’s faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue …”1 Aristotle defined what it means to be human without any reference to a Creator; the human being stands alone and defines humanity by action, by performance of virtue. As thirteenth-century Christian theologians forged
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