Who is Man?

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Speaker Notes

Psalm 8            Who is Man?

1 Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
    in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
    to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?

5 You have made them a little lower than the angels
    and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
    you put everything under their feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
    and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

4 Possible Philosophies of Man (How great are we? How noble are we?)

1.       Man is ontology good and morally good

2.       Man is ontology evil and morally evil

3.       Man is ontology good and morally evil

4.       Man is ontology evil and morally good

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College wikipedia personal website