What is it to be truly human?
This should be answered by studying perfect man in the image of God.
Who is such a one?
Man in his falleness is a distorted image so to whom shall we look?
The early Greeks examined man and the meaning of life and came to see that the dignity of man resided in the virtues. How were these expressed? There was a striving to control the appetites, developing self-respect and desiring to lead others to this end.
The truly human man to them, could see the comedy in life, taking pleasure in all of the world outside of himself. But he could also see the tragedy of life, suffering in the midst of the brokeness of life. To them man achieved greatness when he was able to exalt in suffering. Men who felt deeply about both comedy and tragedy.
As in all of God's world there is the balance, and few there are who find it.
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