The academic paper I chose to submit  to the Western Heritage Scholarship competition was a question of human ideals: what human ideal is presented in a few select, course texts and what ideal would you, the student, choose to follow? Thus, I went about summing up the expected texts and then pondered my stance on the subject and determined the ideal I would write about was a lack of human ideal in favor of a divine ideal or logic. This idea is unique in its field both ideologically and from a societal stance that expects reasoning skills to be intertwined with emotion. To support this theory, textual evidence was accumulated to disprove the advantages of the ideals presented in the texts. The essay concludes with support for the benefits of logic over emotion and no ideal over the use of a human ideal.