In search of the soul : a philosophical essay /

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The concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times. What do we mean when we talk about finding our soul, how do we know we have one, and does it hold any relevance in today's scientifically and technologically dominated society? From Socrates and Augustine to D...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cottingham, John, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Soul.
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophy of mind.
Âme.
Anthropologie philosophique.
Philosophie de l'esprit.
philosophical anthropology.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Cartesian automata.
Dante.
Faust.
Kierkegaard.
Leon Kass.
Platonic.
Sickness unto Death.
Subjectivity.
T. S. Eliot.
The Hungry Soul.
consciousness.
ghosts.
human embodiment.
human fulfillment.
human nature.
immaterial.
immateriality.
immortality.
loss.
metaphysics.
mortality.
natural versus supernatural.
naturalism.
objective science.
objectivity.
opacity of the soul.
panpsychist.
psyche.
psychic integration.
self-fashioning.
soul-searching.
spirituality.
teleology and human destiny.
the body.
the shrinking soul.
transcendent.
trialism.
yearning for God.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword and acknowledgements
  • 1. Humanity in quest of the soul. The risk of loss ; Dimensions of soul ; The soul and human nature ; The soul and moral integration ; But why the soul?
  • 2. The evolution of the soul. What is the soul? ; Out of this world? ; From souls to ghosts ; Descartes and the shrinking soul ; Cartesian automata and the creativity of thought ; The soul-body unit and Descartes's trialism ; The ethical implications of human embodiment
  • 3. Soul, science, and subjectivity. Objective science and subjective experience ; Consciousness: illusion or irreducible reality? ; The panpsychist turn ; Finding a place for consciousness ; The domain of the soul
  • 4. The partly hidden soul. From soul-searching to self-fashioning ; The opacity of the soul and psychic integration ; The depths of the psyche ; The soul's hidden yearning for God
  • 5. The soul and the transcendent. Reaching forward to the transcendent. Natural versus supernatural: the unhelpful contrast ; Immortal longings and the care of the soul: from metaphysics to praxis ; Transcendence and our human destiny.

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