Who I am and how God fits into that picture is a very intricate question. Mankind has always pondered about her own existence and in thousands of different cultures the idea of some supreme power always seems to develop. Now, this is by no means proof of the actual existence of God, but it does give the question a good deal of importance. I am a human being, which means many things, for one that I have a corporal existence and also that I think and am self-aware which adds a mental, or non-physical aspect. As James Marsh says, "If my account of the self is critically comprehensive, . . . then it will include the sensuous and the intellectual, the cognitive and existential, in a dynamic, intelligible unity" (Marsh 113). Then I must considering the corporal limitations and spiritual freedom of man "in such a way that I accept facts and limits without giving in to defeatism and despair, and embrace ideals and hopes without giving into false utopianism and a repressive idealism" (Marsh 116). The tendency for people to concentrate solely on one aspect of the human person has been a mistake that many great minds have made, e.g. Bertrand Russell or even Sartre, thus limiting themselves to one aspect of humanity and giving an inadequate explanation of the human person and the things around us. The alternative (what I am suggesting) is a combination of seemingly mutually exclusive theories, but the human personage is multi-faceted, and "the genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they seem" (Becker 198).
             The components of this multi-faceted person can be broken down into several different categories. First, and most obvious, the person is a physical being, who is subject to her environment, and body. Second, she is a social being subject to her cultures history and current activity. Third, she is a rational being with the ability of intr...