Indicators of Humanhood: A Tentative Profile of Man

with an actual inventory or profile, no matter how tentatively offered. Yet this is what must be done, or at least attempted. Synthetic concepts such as human and man and person require operational terms, spelling out the which and what and when. Only in that way can we get down to cases-to normative decisions. There are always some people who prefer to be visceral and affective in their moral choices, with no desire to have any rationale for what they do. But ethics is precisely the business of rational, critical reflection (encephalic and not merely visceral) about the problems of the moral