Human Nature & Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter

"This concise and accessible exploration of personhood and its moral and spiritual implications will appeal to religious and secular thinkers." —Publishers Weekly

This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true—namely, that human nature is continuous with the rest of nature? What, in other words, does it mean to be a person in a world of things? Alan Mitt...