The Subject of Life (Class Reading)

In Norman Wirzba’s, From Nature to Creation, Wirzba discusses who the Subject of Life is. He tells us about philosophers like Nancy, Marx, and Nietzsche who spent their entire lives trying to rationalize the concept of subjectivity. Are each of us the subject of this state of being? Would that then mean that each of us is the god of our own life and therefore, our desires are what matters above all else? Marx would say that the collective is the subject, while Nietzsche would say that the self is the subject. Is there something above ourselves that instead deserves to be the subject of existence? Wirzba, and Christians in general, argues that there is not something but someone who should be the absolute subject of all existence: the God and Maker of all creation. He can be the only true subject; in his glory, he is the subject and we are his primary objects. When we look at life like this, we will love our roles as his creatures, and we will love to lift him up in praise and worship, as he deserves.