Sublime

This rational capacity to think and to act in obedience to absolute or transcendental values constitutes a dependency of consciousness upon a dimension of reality found nowhere within the physical order. It is a capacity for something that nature cannot “see,” and a desire at once inexhaustible and often remarkably impractical.

If we locate our humanity entirely in our ability to be rational, then this raises troubling questions about the humanity of people who cannot exercise reason. If, however, we locate humanity in being made in the image of God then all human beings, whatever their capacity, are fully human and they remain fully human for the entirety of their life.

Against this, I take the rather boring view that you and I are human beings and that our mental lives belong to the animals we are. That we are creatures of this kind is not something we should hope to learn by introspection.

rationality;

So long as its response was complex and autonomous, Dr Johnson would have been right to conclude that it was caused by something real, outside himself, and therefore that reality did not consist of himself alone.

Martin Heidegger.

most plausible or defensible—

Infinity is humbling.

Adamism