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In search of the soul : a philosophical essay / John Cottingham.

By: Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020Description: xii, 174 pages : illustration ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691174423
  • 9780691174426
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD421 .C68 2020
Contents:
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? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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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