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In these eleven talks—originally presented as the highly acclaimed television series "The Worlds of Abraham Kaplan"—a great teacher discusses the most important questions of traditional and contemporary human experience. Dr. Kaplan's views reflect a deep concern for human dignity and a sensitive awareness of the obstacles which often hinder our self-understanding, our relationships, and our happiness. With wisdom and humane wit, Kaplan deals with the attitudes and emotions which many of us feel but which few of us can articulate.On Women: "...the kind of discrimination which makes a problem for women, blacks, Catholics, Jews, Chicanos, and all sorts of minorities and special groups in our society, is this: they are responded to differently in situations in which the differences make no difference."On Religion: "...authentic religious life, in all cultures and all faiths, is something that comes out of the fullness of a man's heart. It is a gift in which we express our love, rather than something which comes out of the poverty of our lives as a demand that something be given to us."On Morals: "...the great moral leaders of mankind, the prophets, the teachers, the martyrs—they have been the very men and women who made trouble."On Technology: "We talk of modern technology as a Frankenstein monster that threatens to destroy us; the symbol is perhaps better than is often appreciated. Frankenstein was not the name of the monster; Frankenstein was the name of the human being who created the monster."On Loneliness: "I believe that one of the tragedies of our time is that if we have no other way of relating to others, we do so by violence."On Aging: "In many ways, it is the old that are to be envied by the young; they have so much less to lose that often they are capable of much more dedication and commitment to the values, ideals, and principles which provide meaning to all our lives." On Death: "To die in a manner that is worthy of a human being, is to die with a sense of one's identity as the human being he is; as the locus of all the human values which intersect, which come to a meeting-point in his being, as an embodiment of human dignity.""With Abraham Kaplan," as Alfred Slote notes in his Foreword, "the reader is in the hands of a master teacher, a philosopher, a gadfly, and a delightful and impassioned storyteller." Love... and Death is a book to own, to ponder, and to give to friends you cherish.