These features or sensibilities are no disparate trifles, random impressions, arbitrarily registered, but rather necessary components which constitute the essence of being human. They are not reflecting actual behavior but rather the wisdom of a necessary aelf-awareness, a scope of interrelated features within which man must be understood in his being human as distinguished from being animal, from being beastly. They are not simply given in man's consciousness, nor are they properties derived from his . biologocal nature. His sheer being does not guarantee them. However, they may be claimed of him, expected of him. They emerge as manifestly true when a person begins to ponder the latent substance of his self-understanding