What a Piece of Work: On Being Human
- ISBN-10
- 1845404254
- ISBN-13
- 9781845404253
- Series
- What a Piece of Work
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 146
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-10-17
- Publisher
- Andrews UK Limited
- Author
- Helen Oppenheimer
Description
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.
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