On Human Persons

Author : Jason T. Eberl
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268107750
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Human Persons written by Jason T. Eberl and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mark K. Spencer
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235200
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irreducibility of the Human Person written by Mark K. Spencer and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Author : Steven J. Jensen
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813231523
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Person written by Steven J. Jensen and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : John F. Crosby
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813208657
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selfhood of the Human Person written by John F. Crosby and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crosby unfolds the mystery of personal uniqueness, shedding new light on the unrepeatability of each human person.

Author : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139472992
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phenomenology of the Human Person written by Robert Sokolowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James B. Reichmann
Publisher : Loyola Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of the Human Person written by James B. Reichmann and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynne Rudder Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521597197
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persons and Bodies written by Lynne Rudder Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the relation between human persons and their bodies.

Author : Peter van Inwagen
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191515418
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persons written by Peter van Inwagen and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy, currently enjoying something of a revival. In this volume for the first time metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons are brought together with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. Fifteen specially written essays explore idealist, dualist, and materialist views of persons, discuss specifically Christian conceptions of the value of embodiment, and address four central topics in philosophical theology: incarnation, resurrection, original sin, and the trinity.

Author : Hud Hudson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725718
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person written by Hud Hudson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michael Welker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802869793
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Depth of the Human Person written by Michael Welker and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading theologians, biblical scholars, scientists, philosophers, ethicists, and others to explore the multidimensionality and depth of the human person. Moving away from dualistic (mind-body, spirit-flesh, naturalmental) anthropologies, the book's contributors examine human personhood in terms of a complex flesh-body-mind-heart-soul-conscience-reason-spirit spectrum. The Depth of the Human Person begins with a provocative essay on the question "Why is personhood conceptually difficult?" It then rises to the challenge of relating theological contributions on the subject to various scientific explorations. Finally, the book turns to contemporary theological-ethical challenges, discussing such subjects as human dignity, embodiment, gender stereotypes, and human personhood at the edges of life. Contributors: Maria Antonaccio Warren S. Brown Philip Clayton Volker Henning Drecoll Markus Hfner Origen V. Jathanna Malcolm Jeeves Isolde Karle Eiichi Katayanagi Andreas Kemmerling Stephan Kirste Bernd Oberdorfer John C. Polkinghorne Jeffrey P. Schloss Andreas Schle William Schweiker Gerd Theissen Gnter Thomas Frank Vogelsang Michael Welker