Being human

On Not Being Human.

Morton Ann GernsbAcher is the Vilas Research Professor and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She can be reached via email at [email protected]. Around the time I took office as president of the Association for Psychological Science, Wray Herbert, Public Affairs Director of APS, began e-publishing his now syndicated blog,...

Understanding Human Well - being

Islamic Ethics and Intrinsic Value of Human Being

One of the most important debates in Islamic ethics is the place of humanethics and its priority or posteriority in relation to the jurisprudence which deals with acts of worship. Given the diverse approaches towards Islam, there are different ideas on thisproblem. Some Muslims overlook human principles in the name of religion in their approach to Islam. Some others try to interpret Islam in su...

Considering Existence in Human Life's State of Being Meaningful

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The Importance of Being Human

In the summer of 1965, my paleontological colleague, Bryan Patterson, was in charge of a Harvard expedition working near the shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. At a locality called Kanapoi, while he was searching in deposits believed to be of the early Pleistocene the last geological epoch before the present, he picked up an important fossil. The broken lower end of a left humerus the upp...