As spirit-animal hybrids, human beings are perched precariously between the realm of nature and the realm of spirit. On the one hand, humans are subject to the same basic strictures as other mammals: they eat, drink, sleep, copulate, defecate, and eventually die. On the other hand, they are spiritual beings made in God’s image. They possess powers of reason, fertile imaginations, hopes, and dreams that push them to transform the world as they find it. Human beings, therefore, are both radically limited and radically free. In a basic sense, all moral questions consist in bringing our animal
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