Nuland Human Body Analysis

Nuland’s view on the human body as well as the soul is very unorthodox. At least from my point of view it is. Usually when the soul and body is talked about, I’ve always heard the conversation turn to religion. With Nuland, he believes in the physical aspect of life. He connects the physical attributes of the human body with the soul. Most of the time when people talk about conservation of the soul, it almost always ends up with debate over religion. I’m guessing that Nuland decided that he didn’t want to deal with it and started to use more logic and reasoning than his Jewish childhood. Opening my mind up to this idea, I could see why he believes this and it kind of actually goes along with my thoughts. From reading Nuland’s experience in science, Nuland regained his faith through biology, …show more content…
Of course, he connected biology to the human spirit because he was in a severe depression and had to find someway to get out of it. But this is a very broad explanation. I feel like he didn’t completely leave his faith to regain his faith. “The human spirit is enrichment” (Nuland 50). There had to be someway and some reason why that he would go through all of that thought processing just to regain something that he so easily “left”. I think he had a talk with his Lord. He believed that he had to leave the Lord for sometime and go on his own journey to find his self identity. It seemed like he was losing his self identity when he was explaining his stage of depression. “One of my favorite examples from this I got from my orthodox Jewish background” (Nuland 52). This just proves that he never really fully left his faith. He was temporarily taking a break from his religion to find his self identity. This reminds me of one of Aristotle’s virtues, modesty. Nuland didn’t just completely give up his religion. Because of his modesty, he was able to recover and gain even more, his belief in the human spirit’s connection with