ht about ourselves, not being detached from our feelings, but letting our emotions be our guide to what we truly believe.
             However, subjective thinking alone cannot decipher what capacities are essential to our lives. It gives us a place to start from with what really matters to us in our hearts, but it is clouded by our biases and prejudgements. We must sift through our conclusions from subjective thinking with our capability to think objectively. Martha Nussbaum, in her lecture on "Liberal Education and the Cultivation of Humanity", spoke of three things that are essential to being human. One of them was the "capacity for critical examination of oneself." She says that we need to "question all beliefs and reason logically", taking "responsibilty for our own reasoning." It is necessary to take what we have come to believe through our subjective thinking and question that through reasoning and examination of why we believe these things.
             One example of this is in our capacity for religion. One theme that has been common throughout several of the writers we have engaged this semester, is the importance of religion to human flourishing. Kierkegaard says that "man's only salvation lies in the reality of religion for each individual."(2-p.56) Evelyn Underhill also states that, "we are not happy, we are not secure, we are not fully alive until our life has an inside as well as an outside."(3-p.96, italics me) Our humanity hinges on the gift we are given which is the human soul. If we lose touch with that we have no meaning to life, no direction, no answers to the unending questions that plague our minds, no depth, no truth. We therefore need that capacity for spiritual life to be able to flourish. Underhill also says, we need the
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