The question of the nature of man has occupied human beings everywhere and in every period including the present. The scientists, politicians, theologians, journalists, and writers assembled here give their personal responses to the question in fifty incisive contributions representing different cultural traditions.
What is to be expected? Clearly not a conclusive answer to the question but rather a dazzling spectrum of contemporary positions regarding human self-understanding both critical and constructive, pointed and profound.

Autorentext

Detlef Ganten, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Volker Gerhardt und Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Julian Nida-Rümelin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Inhalt

Unter den Beiträgern befinden sich u.a.

Merlin Donald; Ulrike Draesner; Eva-Maria Engelen; Rainer Erlinger; Julia Fischer; Carolin Fischer; Alexandra Freund; Giovanni Galizia; Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht; Andreas Heinz; Otfried Höffe; Wolfgang Huber; Ursula Pia Jauch; Eberhard Jüngel; Karl Lehmann; Hubert Markl; Jürgen Mittelstraß; Walter Mixa; Michael Pauen; Robert Pippin; Wolfgang Prinz; Karl Siegbert Rehberg, Annette Schavan; Johan Schloemann; Ingo Schulze; Günter Stock; Dieter Sturma; Erwin Teufel; Michael Tomasello; Jürgen Trabant; Hans-Jochen Vogel; Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker; Shu Yuanzhao