"One of the best philosophical books written in the last decades. It is a privilege to read it! Offers a vigorous integration of the heart in the understanding of being human."?Mirela Oliva, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX"Robert Wood has been an important voice within Catholic philosophy for the last half century. In Being Human we have his most mature thought on issues of philosophical anthropology. Particularly noteworthy is the way in which he practices the phenomenological 'return to the things themselves.' His considerable knowledge of the history of philosophy does not get in the way of primordial human experiences, but rather attunes us to them."?John F. Crosby, author of The Personalism of John Henry Newman
"To read this book is to have the pleasure of receiving the fruits of a lifetime's worth of philosophical thinking and achieved wisdom. Robert Wood's book Being Human is genuinely philosophical, in the richest sense of that word. It is not merely a profound meditation on human persons' relations to the Whole of Being, but an invigorating summons to readers to engage in such mediation themselves. Drawing upon phenomenology, traditional metaphysics, and careful attention to the concrete history that is sedimented in things, especially in the artifacts and technologies that shape our lives, Wood aims to clarify the very notion of Being through consideration of ordinary and concrete objects and their history."?Mark K. Spencer, author of The Irreducibility of the Human Person: A Catholic Synthesis