@ARTICLE{Zammit_Raymond_Man:_2024,
 author={Zammit, Raymond},
 number={Tom 19},
 pages={217-234},
 journal={Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2024},
 publisher={Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych},
 abstract={The Psalmist wonders why God should be mindful of man, but thousands of years later, man remains a mystery to himself, and in his relationship with God and others. The article starts by looking at etymologies of the names used for the human being in Hebrew, Latin and Greek, and then goes to argue that while human beings may study all the things around them, it is important to study mankind itself, for ignorance about man leads to wrong ideas about who human beings are. At the same time, defining mankind is not easy, and some, like Foucault, have forcefully argued against a presumed essence of things. In this view, therefore, human nature does not exist, and soon there will come a time when ‘man’ will die. At the same time, however, our discussion and disputes today are the result of different views of what man is. This is discussed in the context of man’s biological origins, the social ideologies of liberalism and socialism, economics, bioethics, and finally with respect to children. The article concludes with a call to behold man in a broad way and to respond with care.},
 title={Man: a mystery to himself},
 type={Article},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/133527/PDF/2024-SNT-11.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/snt.2024.150501},
 keywords={human nature, bioethics, economics, childhood, Foucault, Levinas, Potter},
}