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For all their differences, the world's great religions seem to agree that humans need improvement. By whatever path we take, we yearn to have better lives or to become better people, to work in better institutions and live in better societies, while building a better world. Ordinary human lives are inadequate. But what exactly do we mean by "better"? How do we define better people or better worlds? Does a better human have a better human body, or will this one do? Must a truly better human leave behind a merely human body entirely in order to become fully human? Or does the best human have no body at all? This volume offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the meaning of human improvement. As we read through these pages, we can imagine ourselves setting out on a quest to ask religious teachers from various traditions one of the most profound and basic of all human questions. "Tell us, please, how we may become better humans. How do we become better persons?" These chapters are diverse answers to a question that is at once common and profound. But this volume does something more. The traditional answers that are offered have all been revised by a process of wrestling with a new an

Author

Ronald Cole-Turner

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137342768

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology