A Philosophy Of The Human Being

Author : Julian A. Davies
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 076184516X

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A Philosophy of the Human Being by Julian A. Davies Pdf

This book is an accessible text that explores what it means to be human. It is designed for an introductory course in Philosophy of the Human Being and contains an abundance of current examples, with embedded quotations from philosophers and selections from contemporary writers following the chapters. The author provides an introduction to philosophy, then discusses the topics of human sociability, intelligence, freedom, duality, individuality, and immortality. He concludes by highlighting the contrast between realism and materialism. This systematic approach focuses on issues, with a minimum of metaphysical superstructure and jargon, and provides connections between the readings. Book jacket.

Author : ralph b.bacchus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1702412326

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BEING HUMAN BEING the Philosophy of Existence by ralph b.bacchus Pdf

The philosophy of existence is an account of the multitude of all that matters in human life, and how they are connected. A book about humans from the perspective of the reality and facts of our origin, existence, and future, with a multi-disciplinary approach, including doctrine, science, anthropology, history, psychology, consciousness, spirituality, and other related aspects. Explore who we are, what we are, where we are in this time, and where we are headed in this vast universe. You get to decide what is, and what is not, as we test the differences between doctrinal belief, and the acceptance of science. Knowledge is the power to understand all that is. Be prepared to see yourself through this book as though you are looking into a mirror. The book was published in 2019 and mentions events that are happening in 2020. "The philosophy of existence" will help you see the world through a wide angle lens instead of a microscope. It will guide you to understand enough to realize that you are simply passing through this time, and your knowledge and understanding can help you find a place of peace in the life you live.

Author : James B. Reichmann
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106008731074

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Philosophy of the Human Person by James B. Reichmann Pdf

Author : Frederick A. Olafson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521479371

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What is a Human Being? by Frederick A. Olafson Pdf

Olafson develops Heidegger's philosophy and yields a distinctive new alternative in the philosophy of mind.

Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415558440

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What is the Human Being? by Patrick R. Frierson Pdf

Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant's philosophy of human nature - which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick Frierson assesses Kant's theories and examines his critics.

Author : Nancy Le Nezet,Chris White,Daniel Lee,Guy Williams
Publisher : Oxford IB Diploma Programme
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 0198392834

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IB Philosophy Being Human Course Book by Nancy Le Nezet,Chris White,Daniel Lee,Guy Williams Pdf

Developed directly with the IB, dedicated assessment support straight from the IB builds confidence, and student samples drive critical thought on constructing strong responses. The most comprehensive coverage of the core content Being Human, this course book will help learners grasp complex philosophical ideas and develop crucial thinking skills · The most comprehensive coverage of the core content Being Human, developed directly with the IB · Engage learners in the course, with excerpts from a range of philosophers spurring critical discussion · Help students understand exam achievement levels and progress attainment with clear student samples · Assessment support straight from the IB cements assessment potential · Support all learning styles and simplify complex philosophical ideas using clear visuals and illustrations · Reinforce all key ideas with integrated activities helping extend and deepen understanding About the series: IB Diploma Course Books are essential resource materials designed in cooperation with the IB to provide students with extra support through their IB studies. Course Books provide advice and guidance on specific course assessment requirements, mirroring the IB philosophy and providing opportunities for critical thinking.

Author : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139472999

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Phenomenology of the Human Person by Robert Sokolowski Pdf

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 : Holger Zaborowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199576777

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Robert Spaemann's Philosophy of the Human Person by Holger Zaborowski Pdf

An analysis of the most important features of Robert Spaemann's philosophy. Holger Zaborowski demonstrates the importance of Spaemann's contribution to a number of contemporary debates in philosophy and theology and explains the unity of his thought.

Author : Mark K. Spencer
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813235202

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The Irreducibility of the Human Person by Mark K. Spencer Pdf

"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 : Søren Ventegodt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 1614704945

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Our Search for Meaning in Life by Søren Ventegodt Pdf

If you take a walk in the woods on a winter morning and see the sun sparkle and glimmer in the newly fallen snow, or if you sit one morning on the pier with the one you love and watch the glowing sun rise above the sea, you may suddenly think that there are far too few moments like these in your life. Some people experience several high points like these throughout life, when the earth somehow spins the right way around just for a brief moment. You cannot force these experiences to happen, but invite them by making an effort in your life and doing your utmost in every situation. In order to do so, you need to understand the importance of making the right decision in even the smallest of situations. Self-discipline and personal energy will give you control of your life. When you sincerely do your utmost to be in control of your life, you can catch a glimpse of a major obstacle to success: your inability to understand life, the world around you and yourself.

Author : Robert B. Louden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199877584

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Kant's Human Being by Robert B. Louden Pdf

In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, "What is the human being" is philosophy's most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. Louden analyzes and evaluates Kant's own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of human nature. This collection of twelve essays is divided into three parts. In Part One (Human Virtues), Louden explores the nature and role of virtue in Kant's ethical theory, showing how the conception of human nature behind Kant's virtue theory results in a virtue ethics that is decidedly different from more familiar Aristotelian virtue ethics programs. In Part Two (Ethics and Anthropology), he uncovers the dominant moral message in Kant's anthropological investigations, drawing new connections between Kant's work on human nature and his ethics. Finally, in Part Three (Extensions of Anthropology), Louden explores specific aspects of Kant's theory of human nature developed outside of his anthropology lectures, in his works on religion, geography, education ,and aesthetics, and shows how these writings substantially amplify his account of human beings. Kant's Human Being offers a detailed and multifaceted investigation of the question that Kant held to be the most important of all, and will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to all who are concerned with the study of human nature.

Author : Jason T. Eberl
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268107758

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The Nature of Human Persons by Jason T. Eberl Pdf

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 : Max Scheler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131744158

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The Constitution of the Human Being by Max Scheler Pdf

Max Scheler was one of the major philosophers of the 20th Century. He was one of the three original phenomenologists - with Husserl and Heidegger - who set the scene for phenomenological, existential and life philosophy. This translation, taken from his posthumous writings, brings together what he wrote on metaphysics and human anthropology.

Author : Miguel Acosta,Adrian Reimers
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813228570

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Karol Wojtyla's Personalist Philosophy by Miguel Acosta,Adrian Reimers Pdf

This work provides a clear guide to Karol Wojtyla's principal philosophical work, Person and Act, rigorously analyzing the meaning that the author intended in his exposition. An important feature of the work is that the authors rely on the original Polish text, Osoba i czyn, as well as the best translations into Italian and Spanish, rather than on a flawed and sometimes misleading English edition of the work.

Author : Thomas Fuchs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780192898197

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In Defense of the Human Being by Thomas Fuchs Pdf

With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves in the image of our machines, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.