The human person : animal and spirit
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
©1992
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: The human being as an animal : the nature of psychophysical unity. I. Overview of part one: the sameness of materialism and dualism and the need for a holistic view opposed to both. II. Perception (I): the shape of holistic view. III. Perception (II): clarifying the notion of real cognitive relation and assessing contemporary discussion. IV. Action, emotion, and sensation. V. A non-dualistic account of the meaning of mind-involving statements. VI. The primacy of the agent over the event in causation. VII. No presumption in favour of mechanism: the possible autonomy of teleological explanation. VIII. The first refutation of mechanism: psychophysical unity at the level of explanation and reality. IX. The community of human beings with other animal: five aspect.
- Part two: the human being as spirit: human transcendence revealed in language. XI. The 'objects' of the mind in speaking and thinking. XII. The second refutation of mechanism: linguistic understanding and thinking have, no bodily organ. XIII. Animal and human souls. two non-dualistic conceptions. XIV. How human being transcend the body: first explanation
- -The transcendence of the human soul. XV. How human beings transcend the body: second explanation
- -The transcendence of the human being as such