Publisher's Synopsis
One of the most illustrious and influential rabbis in the world confronts a crucial issue in the philosophy and religion of our time: the nature and role of man. In these three lectures, which he originally gave at the Raymond Fred West Memorial Lectures at Stanford University in May 1963, Dr. Heschel investigates the logic of being human: what does it mean to be human? What arguments justify the claim that a human being is human?