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In 1906, American humorist Mark Twain published a sixty-page essay entitled What is man? Consisting of an interminable dialogue between a senior citizen (who believes that man is just a machine) and a young man (who believes nothing in particular but is open to persuasion), it wasnt one of his finest books. But at least he tried. Authors since then seem to have avoided the subject like the plague, often tackling the respective roles of men and women in society but seldom asking deeper questions about what it means to be human. When the psalmist asked, What is man? (Psalm 8 v.4) he was, I think, seeking an altogether more profound answer.
Avoidance of the subject is all the more strange because there has never been a time like our own when curiosity about human origins and destiny has been greater, or the answers on offer more hotly disputed. Its a safe bet that any attempt to give the big picture on the origin, nature and specialness of mankind will be contentious which might explain why writers have generally fought shy of it. Yet at heart it is the question most of us really do want answered, because the answer defines that precious thing we call our identity, both personally and as a race.
The Psalmist did, of course, offer his own answer three millennia ago. Man, he claimed, was created by God for a clearly defined purpose to exercise dominion over planet earth and (by implication) to ultimately share something of the glory of the divine nature. The rest, as they say, is history, but its not a happy tale. As Mark Twain says in another essay; I cant help being disappointed with Adam and Eve. Not surprisingly, then, a large proportion of humanity today are looking for alternative solutions, accepting the challenge of the Psalmists question without embracing the optimism of his answer.
In this book we are going to consider the alternative solutions on offer by considering what it means to be human against the backgrounds of cosmology (mans place in the universe), biology (mans place in the animal kingdom), and psychology (mans consciousness and mind). Finally, we return to the biblical context, arguing that the Psalmist got it right after all.Dont let the science-sounding stuff put you off. Like its popular prequel, Who made God? Searching for a theory of everything, this book is written with a light touch in a reader-friendly and often humorous style. It is intended specifically for the non-expert, with homely verbal illustrations designed to explain and unpack the technicalities for the lay-person. As Dr. Paul Copan (Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics, Palm Beach Atlantic University) says, ‘Edgar Andrews has a way of making the profound accessible. His scholarship informs the reader about key questions of our time, offering wise guidance and illumination.’
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در سال 1906، مارک تواین، طنزپرداز آمریکایی، مقاله ای شصت صفحه ای با عنوان انسان چیست؟ این کتاب که از گفت و گوی پایان ناپذیری بین یک شهروند سالخورده (که معتقد است انسان فقط یک ماشین است) و یک مرد جوان (که به هیچ چیز خاصی اعتقاد ندارد اما برای متقاعد کردن باز است) تشکیل شده است، یکی از بهترین کتاب های او نبود. اما حداقل او تلاش کرد. به نظر میرسد نویسندگان از آن زمان از موضوعی مانند طاعون اجتناب کردهاند و اغلب به نقشهای مربوط به مردان و زنان در جامعه میپردازند، اما به ندرت سؤالات عمیقتری درباره معنای انسان بودن میپرسند. وقتی مزمورنویس پرسید انسان چیست؟ (مزمور 8 v.4) فکر می کنم او به دنبال پاسخی کاملاً عمیق تر بود.
اجتناب از موضوع بسیار عجیب تر است زیرا هرگز زمانی مانند زمان ما نبوده است که کنجکاوی در مورد انسان وجود داشته باشد. منشأ و سرنوشت بزرگتر بوده است، یا پاسخ های ارائه شده به شدت مورد مناقشه قرار گرفته است. این یک شرط مطمئن است که هر تلاشی برای ارائه تصویری بزرگ در مورد منشأ، ماهیت و خاص بودن نوع بشر بحث برانگیز
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