Science and most academic scholarship, for perhaps two centuries, and more, would place the facts of reality outside, even detached, from mankind. “Theology” – though it was named by Plato – at least has the depth to challenge man with the idea of a higher identity of meaning, and being: imago dei.
Both though are ever subjected to what for now approximately two centuries we gradually have described as “individuals” – be they of a natural aristos or buffoons.