What does it mean to be a human person?

What is the basic human orientation to the world, to other people, and to God?

Join Professor Brandon Spun as he addresses the basic existential orientation of the human person. We are oriented in such a manner that we uniquely attend to limits, seek to surpass them, and confront our existential threshold. This framework for our existence engages us dialectically with the world and with the sources of things. To seek out the causes of things is a fundamentally personal act which engages us in ordinary experience, but also in science, in philosophy, and  in theological enquiry. But this orientation is also characteristic and perhaps most emblematic of our engagement with one another. This orientation ultimately leads us to the threshold of that which is inexhaustible. An awareness of the inexhaustibility and incomprehensibility of being is the fundamental orientation of the human person and of Christian philosophy, an orientation which is toward the person, both created and uncreated.