On Thinking the Human - Resolutions of Difficult Notions

These reflections explore some central notions that are notoriously hard to think about, namely death, consciousness, freedom, reality, wickedness and love. The paradox of death is that, in thinking about it, we always survive in the first person. The author does not really consider the possibility that this may be literally true! He has the usual Western difficulties of only conceiving a physical body vs, disembodied existence, and indeed confines his reflections to Western thinking in general. However, the book does open up into the transcendent and provides a wider context for understanding human life.