What a Piece of Work: On Being Human

ISBN-13: 9781845400637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 139 str.

Helen Oppenheimer

Opis

This is a small book on a large subject: What is special about human beings? Hamlet mused, 'What a piece of work is man How noble in reason how like a god ' but went on to speak of this quintessence of dust . Helen Oppenheimer prefers to start with the dust and move to the glory: we really are animals and from these animals has come Shakespeare. People are indeed miserable sinners and also magnificent creatures. The author does not disguise that she is a Christian theologian whose subject is ethics, but she writes equally for non-Christians. Her invitation to the reader is: Here is a way of looking at things that I find exciting and convincing I hope you do too."