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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.

What a Piece of Work: On Being Human

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      Publisher: Imprint Academic
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9781845400637, 978-1845400637
      ISBN10: 1845400631

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      Book Synopsis

      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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