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“THE MYSTERY OF HUMAN UNIQUENESS”: COMMON SENSE, SCIENCE, AND JUDAISM: with Eric Priest, Celia Deane‐Drummond, Joseph Henrich, and Mary Meyers, “Introduction to Symposium on ‘Just How Special Are Humans?’”; Eric Priest, “Human Uniqueness: Debates in Science and Theology”; Joseph Henrich, “How Culture Made Us Uniquely Human”; Agustín Fuentes, “Distinctively Human? Meaning‐Making and World Shaping… by Alan Mittleman is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

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Uniqueness implies singularity, incomparability. Nonetheless, as applied to everything within the human lifeworld, including ourselves, uniqueness is relativized. This becomes clear in the tension between "commonsensical" and "scientific" perspectives on the human. Our commonsense approach posits that human beings are unique among animals-unique because of our properties, most especially our consciousness, as well as because of our significance and value. From a scientific perspective, however, the uniqueness of the human-if it can be affirmed at all-is possibly a matter of degree, not kind. Additionally, the scientific perspective prescinds from judgments of the value of the human. To join these perspectives, without giving up on the importance of either one, is a philosophical and theological challenge. A Jewish approach to the challenge is offered here.

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Author

Alan Mittleman

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)