ABSTRACT
This chapter compares the stories that science and the Church tell about man. It also compares the answers these stories give to three cardinal questions about man: What is man's freedom? What does man want? And what is man's good? The question of man's freedom is one of the most profound in anthropology —a philosophical conundrum. By the lights of science, man cannot be free. There is no room for freedom in the metaphysic of subject and object. The question of what man wants is the preeminent question of content in anthropology. By the lights of science man can have no genuine want. With freedom and want, in which man can realize his heart's desire, comes the moral question of anthropology. What is the good of man? This is the question of value, of man's direction and purpose. This is the question beyond what man is, to what he can and should be. This is the ultimate question of anthropology.
