On Human Persons
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The Nature Of Human Persons
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Author : Jason T. Eberl
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2020-06-25
The Nature Of Human Persons written by Jason T. Eberl and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-25 with Philosophy categories.
Is there a shared nature common to all human beings? What essential qualities might define this nature? These questions are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of philosophy and remain subjects of perennial interest and controversy. The Nature of Human Persons offers a metaphysical investigation of the composition of the human essence. For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? Jason Eberl also considers the criterion of identity for a developing human being—that is, what is required for a human being to continue existing as a person despite undergoing physical and psychological changes over time? Eberl's investigation presents and defends a theoretical perspective from the thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Advancing beyond descriptive historical analysis, this book places Aquinas’s account of human nature into direct comparison with several prominent contemporary theories: substance dualism, emergentism, animalism, constitutionalism, four-dimensionalism, and embodied mind theory. These theories inform various conclusions regarding when human beings first come into existence—at conception, during gestation, or after birth—and how we ought to define death for human beings. Finally, each of these viewpoints offers a distinctive rationale as to whether, and if so how, human beings may survive death. Ultimately, Eberl argues that the Thomistic account of human nature addresses the matters of human nature and survival in a much more holistic and desirable way than the other theories and offers a cohesive portrait of one’s continued existence from conception through life to death and beyond.
The Irreducibility Of The Human Person
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Author : Mark K. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2022-03-25
The Irreducibility Of The Human Person written by Mark K. Spencer and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-25 with Philosophy categories.
"This book presents a philosophical portrait of human persons that depicts each way in which we are irreducible, with the goal of guiding the reader to perceive, wonder at, and love all the unique features of human persons. It builds this portrait by showing how claims from many strands of the Catholic tradition can be synthesized. These strands include Thomism, Scotism, phenomenology, personalism, nouvelle théologie, analytic philosophy, and Greek and Russian thought. The book focuses on how these traditions' claims are grounded in experience and on how they help us to perceive irreducible features of persons. This book also explores irreducible features of our subjectivity, senses, intellect, freedom, and affections, and of our souls, bodies, and activities"--
Persons And Bodies
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Author : Lynne Rudder Baker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-13
Persons And Bodies written by Lynne Rudder Baker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-13 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A detailed account of the relation between human persons and their bodies.
Images Of The Human
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Author : Hunter Brown
language : en
Publisher: Loyola Press
Release Date : 1995
Images Of The Human written by Hunter Brown and has been published by Loyola Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Now available in paperback, "Images of the Human" addresses the questions human beings have been asking for centuries. Each chapter focuses on the writings of a different philosopher--from Plato to Nietzsche, St. Augustine to Simone de Beauvior. As a distinctive feature, commentaries explore the unique relationship between what philosophers say and what religion teaches.
The Human Person
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Author : Steven J. Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Release Date : 2018-10-31
The Human Person written by Steven J. Jensen and has been published by Catholic University of America Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-31 with Philosophy categories.
The Human Person presents a brief introduction to the human mind, the soul, immortality, and free will. While delving into the thought of Thomas Aquinas, it addresses contemporary topics, such as skepticism, mechanism, animal language research, and determinism. Steven J. Jensen probes the primal questions of human nature. Are human beings free or determined? Is the capacity to reason distinctive to human beings or do animals also have some share of reason? Have animals really been taught to use language?
The Selfhood Of The Human Person
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Author : John F. Crosby
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 1996
The Selfhood Of The Human Person written by John F. Crosby and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.
Crosby unfolds the mystery of personal uniqueness, shedding new light on the unrepeatability of each human person.
Phenomenology Of The Human Person
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Author : Robert Sokolowski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-05-12
Phenomenology Of The Human Person written by Robert Sokolowski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-12 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things when they are presented to us through syntax. Sokolowski highlights the role of the spoken word in human reason and examines the bodily and neurological basis for human experience. Drawing on Husserl and Aristotle, as well as Aquinas and Henry James, Sokolowski here employs phenomenology in a highly original way in order to clarify what we are as human agents.
The Human Person
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Author : David Braine
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-07-09
The Human Person written by David Braine and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-09 with Philosophy categories.
A philosophical work that addresses the validity of the question: What is it for the human being to be an animal, and for this animal to be a spirit? Braine argues that the perspectives of materialism and dualism are different casts of the same flawed mold and offers a holistic alternative. Braine further argues that perception is inseparable from behavior and that the human propensity to produce language separates us from other animals. Culminating in a discussion of the meaning of death, this is rich and passionate philosophical argument for the human being as animal and soul.
A Materialist Metaphysics Of The Human Person
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Author : Hud Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-18
A Materialist Metaphysics Of The Human Person written by Hud Hudson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with Philosophy categories.
Hud Hudson presents an innovative view of the metaphysics of human persons according to which human persons are material objects but not human organisms. In developing his account, he formulates and defends a unique collection of positions on parthood, persistence, vagueness, composition, identity, and various puzzles of material constitution.The author also applies his materialist metaphysics to issues in ethics and in the philosophy of religion. He examines the implications for ethics of his metaphysical views for standard arguments addressing the moral permissibility of our treatment of human persons and their parts, fetuses and infants, the irreversibly comatose, and corpses. He argues that his metaphysics provides the best foundation in the philosophy of religion for the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the body.Hudson addresses a broad range of metaphysical issues, but among his most strikingly original contributions are his defense of the "Partist" view (according to which a material object can exactly occupy multiple, overlapping regions of spacetime) and his argument for the compatibility of Christianity with a materialistic theory of human persons.
What Is A Person On Non Human Persons And Alternative Beings
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Author : Sam Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2014-11-10
What Is A Person On Non Human Persons And Alternative Beings written by Sam Mitchell and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-10 with Philosophy categories.
Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: It is a fundamental flaw of humanity to consider all of mankind equal and above every other species known to us. It is a flaw that we do not even recognise as a flaw. We go about our day-to-day business without a second thought about whether or not the man across the street is less or more of a person than ourselves. Nevertheless, this flaw exists. It is unfounded and irrational and yet influences almost all our judgments and decisions. Personhood is not a right of mankind. In fact personhood is not a right of any creature. In this essay I explore how we can decide how to award personhood and to whom.