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Who Is Man?

Who Is Man?

Abraham Joshua Heschel
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One of the world’s most illustrious & influential theologians here confronts one of the crucial philosophical & religious questions of our time: the nature & role of man. In these three lectures, originally delivered in somewhat different form as The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lectures at Stanford University in 5/1963, Dr Heschel inquires into the logic of being human: What is meant by being human? What are the grounds on which to justify a human’s claim to being human? In the author’s words, “We have never been as openmouthed & inquisitive, never as astonished & embarrassed at our ignorance about man. We know what he makes, but we do not konw wha he is or what to expect of him. Is it not conceivable that our entire civilization is built upon a minsinterpretation of man? Or that the tragedy of man is due to the fact that he is a being who has forgotten the question: Who is Man? The failure to identify himself, to know what is authentic human existence, leads him to assume a false identity, to pretending to be what he is unable to be or to not accepting what is at the very root of his being. Ignorance about man is not lack of knowledge, but false knowledge.”
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Stanford University Press (CA)
Release
June 01, 1965
ISBN
0804702667
ISBN 13
9780804702669

Who Is Man?

Abraham Joshua Heschel
4.3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
One of the world’s most illustrious & influential theologians here confronts one of the crucial philosophical & religious questions of our time: the nature & role of man. In these three lectures, originally delivered in somewhat different form as The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lectures at Stanford University in 5/1963, Dr Heschel inquires into the logic of being human: What is meant by being human? What are the grounds on which to justify a human’s claim to being human? In the author’s words, “We have never been as openmouthed & inquisitive, never as astonished & embarrassed at our ignorance about man. We know what he makes, but we do not konw wha he is or what to expect of him. Is it not conceivable that our entire civilization is built upon a minsinterpretation of man? Or that the tragedy of man is due to the fact that he is a being who has forgotten the question: Who is Man? The failure to identify himself, to know what is authentic human existence, leads him to assume a false identity, to pretending to be what he is unable to be or to not accepting what is at the very root of his being. Ignorance about man is not lack of knowledge, but false knowledge.”
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Stanford University Press (CA)
Release
June 01, 1965
ISBN
0804702667
ISBN 13
9780804702669

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