What Does It Mean to Be Human? Reverence for Life Reaffirmed by Responses from Around the World

by Franck, Frederick; Roze, Janis; Connolly, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780312271015
• ISBN10: 0312271018
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-03
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

In an inspirational act of faith and hope, nearly one hundred contributors--social activists, thinkers, artists and spiritual leaders--reflect with poignant candor on our shared human condition and attempt to define a core set of human values in our rapidly changing socity. Contributors include: * The Dalai Lama * Wilma Mankiller * Oscar Arias * Jimmy Carter * Cornel West * Jack Miles * Mother Teresa * Nancy Willard * Elie Wiesel * James Earl Jones * Joan Chittister * Mary Evelyn Tucker * Vaclav Havel * Archbishop Desmund Tutu What Does It Mean To Be Human? is a vital meditation on the endless possibilities of our humanity.

Author Biography

Frederick Franck is the author of twenty-seven books including the classic Zen of Seeing, My Days with Albert Schweitzer, and A Little Compendium on That Which Matters.

Richard Connolly is a communications art professor at SUNY.

Janis Roze teaches biology at CUNY.

Table of Contents

Prologue	1	(7)
Frederick Franck
Rhena Schweitzer Miller	8	(3)
Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama	11	(2)
Rabbi Avraham Soetendorf	13	(4)
Jack Miles	17	(3)
Elie Wiesel	20	(2)
Yehudi Menuhin	22	(2)
Mary Evelyn Tucker	24	(2)
Oscar Arias	26	(1)
Facundo Cabral	27	(2)
Dorothea Solle	29	(3)
Thomas Berry	32	(7)
Jose Munoz	39	(3)
C. Richard Chapman	42	(3)
Nancy Willard	45	(2)
Joseph Rotblat	47	(4)
Charlie Musselwhite	51	(2)
Vaclav Havel	53	(3)
Richard Connolly	56	(1)
Daniel Martin	57	(4)
Raimon Panikkar	61	(3)
Ram Dass	64	(3)
Donella Meadows	67	(3)
Seyyed Hossein Nasr	70	(7)
Gary MacEoin	77	(2)
Willis Harman	79	(4)
Juliet Hollister	83	(2)
Mother Teresa	85	(3)
Mary Palmer Smith	88	(3)
Georg Feuerstein	91	(2)
Carman Moore	93	(2)
Huston Smith	95	(7)
Amanda Bernal-Carlo	102	(3)
Monsignor William Linder	105	(4)
Alexander Eliot	109	(3)
James Parks Morton	112	(2)
Leonard Marks	114	(3)
Nancy Jack Todd	117	(3)
Patrick Clarke	120	(3)
Arno Gruen	123	(6)
Robert Aitken	129	(1)
Anne E. Goldfeld	130	(4)
James Finn Cotter	134	(2)
Gillian Kean	136	(2)
Catharina Halkes	138	(4)
Dean Frantz	142	(2)
Cornel West	144	(5)
Joan Chittister	149	(5)
Rupert Sheldrake	154	(5)
Janis Roze	159	(4)
Willem A. M. Alting von Geusau	163	(3)
Chungliang Al Huang	166	(4)
Jacques Langlais	170	(4)
Ludek Broz	174	(3)
Pedro Aznar	177	(3)
Satish Kumar	180	(5)
Joanna Macy	185	(4)
Stephen Hoe Snyder	189	(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye	191	(2)
John Grim	193	(2)
Arn Chorn-Pond	195	(3)
James M. Mboje	198	(2)
Lukas van Witsen Franck	200	(3)
Richard Kiley	203	(3)
Harry M. Buck	206	(2)
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott	208	(2)
Judith Thompson	210	(3)
Catherine de Vinck	213	(2)
James Heisig	215	(2)
Leonardo Lazarte	217	(3)
Rustum Roy	220	(3)
Tomin Harada	223	(3)
Annelie Keil	226	(5)
Arthur Frank	231	(6)
Thomas Bezanson	237	(2)
Anne Wilson Schaef	239	(3)
Ervin Laszlo	242	(3)
James Earl Jones	245	(1)
Mel King	246	(2)
Ralph White	248	(3)
Ramon Pascuel Munoz Soler	251	(4)
Daniel Berrigan	255	(2)
Denize Lauture	257	(1)
Wilma Mankiller	258	(2)
Catherine Bernier	260	(2)
Constance Carlough	262	(1)
David Krieger	263	(2)
Ruth Slickman	265	(2)
Akihisa Kondo	267	(2)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu	269	(4)
Ashis Nandy	273	(6)
Harvey Cox	279	(5)
Frederick Franck	284	(3)
Editors' Note	287