The Beginning of Wisdom
Reading Genesis
As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R. Kass shows in The Beginning of Wisdom, it's also timeless. Examining Genesis in a philosophical light, Kass presents it not as a story of what happened long ago, but as the enduring story of humanity itself. He asserts that the first half of Genesis contains insights about human nature that rival anything produced by the great philosophers. Kass here reads these first stories--from Adam and Eve to the tower of Babel--as a mirror for self-discovery that reveals truths about human reason, speech, freedom, sexual desire, prid…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-226-42567-2
- EAN: 9780226425672
- Produktnummer: 2232629
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 716 S.
- Masse: H16.4 cm x B23.0 cm x D4.8 cm 996 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 996
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Leon R. Kass, MD, is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. A member of the President's Council on Bioethics, he is the author or coauthor of five books, including, most recently, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics.
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