num_pages: 96
description: This is a small book on a large 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 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 Here is a way of looking at things that I find exciting and convincing ― I hope you do too.
language: English
title: What a Piece of Work: On Being Human
titlecomplete: What a Piece of Work: On Being Human
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Imprint Academic