This volume deals with the central questions facing the human race - its origin, its features, its goals, its free will - from various perspectives.The numerous multidisciplinary teaching materials included in this volume offer pupils the opportunity to view and analyse humankind from various perspectives. Included are anthropological viewpoints from theology and religion, from philosophy and art, from the natural sciences and humanism.Carefully selected and shortened texts, illustrations, comments and suggestions on teaching these contents are presented and can be employed directly in the classroom.