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Is there a human nature

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We humans are deeply convinced that there is something distinct about us as a species, but we have never been able to agree on what it is. In the West, the religion of Israel argued that the will is the fundamental vehicle of our relation to God and therefore the determining characteristic of our humanity. Greek philosophy countered with the view that reason is the definitively human characteristic, since humans are the only self-aware animal. Today that unresolved argument is further complicated by the pluralism of contemporary culture and the surprisingly different ways in which different groups understand themselves. These essays approach the question in two different ways.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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128 ROU i

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Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press., 1997

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xv,212p.; 23 cm.

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English

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0-268-03159-2

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128

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PHILOSOPHY - HUMANKIND

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