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Humans are beings who not only exist and experience but also understand -- who do not simply live their lives in the manner of their fellow creatures but are both given and required to lead their lives by understanding themselves in relation to their world. In fact, it is just such self-understanding at its most fundamental level that is the constitutive event of human existence. We each are or become human only because or insofar as we relate ourselves understandingly, and thus in freedom and responsibility, both to our own existence and to the world around us (cf. On Theology: 26).

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