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Seeing ourselves : reclaiming humanity from god and science /
In 'Seeing Ourselves', philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life, and goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in ou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Agenda Publishing,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I Overture
- Chapter 1 Humanism and anti-humanism
- Part II Our Human Being
- Chapter 2 Against naturalism: neither ape nor angel
- Addendum: Some observations on animal cognition: making it tougher for killjoys
- Chapter 3 I am and it is: persons and organisms
- Addendum Ambodiment: the I and the it
- Chapter 4 Human being: in and out of time
- Chapter 5 The elusive, inescapable self
- Chapter 6 The mystery of human agency
- Chapter 7 Humanity against finitude: transhumanist dreams
- Part III Flourishing without God
- Chapter 8 "The sky is empty"
- Chapter 9 Meaning and purpose
- Chapter 10 Reclaiming ourselves
- Epilogue: an inconclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.