The Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Meaning of the Human Body

This article is a metaphysical journey through the issues of corporeality, perceived as the 'sacrament of the person' and the foundation of human dignity. The author analyzes the universal nature of funeral rituals, seeing them as proof that the body is never merely matter, but a face revealing the subject. The text confronts the classical theology and philosophy of Levinas and Scruton with contemporary trends in scientism and transhumanism. In an era of the expansion of artificial intelligence and dreams of digital immortality, the publication raises crucial questions about the limits of the profanation of human nature and the ontological hunger for meaning that leads humans to an encounter with the sacred.