Finished Reading: Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person by Gilbert Meilaender 📚

Thoughtfulness is an understatement when it comes to Meilaender. In each of his books, I always appreciate his nonrelativist, both-and approach.

Thinking seriously about human dignity should compel us to ask whether freedom and consent are really all we ought to care about—to ask whether being human means nothing more than the freedom to shape and reshape ourselves, or whether it also means honoring the embodied character of our life and affirming some of its limits.