Calvin Tomkin, in his biography of Eric Hoffer, called Eric Hoffer, Page 26, writes: "Man, Hoffer decided, was nature's only unfinished animal. Eternally unsatisfied and incomplete, his soul continually stretched between the opposites of good and evil, he achieved nobility in the attempt to become fully human, or, as Hofer put it, to finish God's work."
My response: Animals are finished robots, pure beasts, ruled by guiding instincts. Humans by contrast, were left unfinished, which meant they are half beast, half from nature, and half angel, from God. They are awake, rational, volitional, exercising their free agency.
The human is tormented by his half-breed, paradox existence, part of both poles of any dualism, and the bridging personal solution for how to create meaning out of his suffering and meaning quest is how he achieved nobility, an as an exemplar maverizer, he finishes God's work, God who too is part natural and part nature-Transcendent.
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