The Human Person

Author : Mark K. Spencer
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Steven J. Jensen
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813231525

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The Human Person by Steven J. Jensen Pdf

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 : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : John F. Crosby
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813208653

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The Selfhood of the Human Person by John F. Crosby Pdf

Crosby unfolds the mystery of personal uniqueness, shedding new light on the unrepeatability of each human person.

Author : James B. Reichmann
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106008731074

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Philosophy of the Human Person by James B. Reichmann Pdf

Author : Steven J. Jensen
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813230337

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Sin by Steven J. Jensen Pdf

If the human soul is made for good, then how do we choose evil? On the other hand, perhaps the human soul is not made for good. Perhaps the magnitude of human depravity reveals that the human soul may directly choose evil. Notably, Thomas Aquinas rejects this explanation for the prevalence of human sin. He insists that in all our desires we seek what is good. How, then, do we choose evil? Only by mistaking evil for good. This solution to the difficulty, however, leads Aquinas into another conundrum. How can we be held responsible for sins committed under a misunderstanding of the good? The sinner, it seems, has simply made an intellectual blunder. Sin has become an intellectual defect rather than a depravity of will and desire. Sin: A Thomistic Psychology grapples with these difficulties. A solution to the problem must address a host of issues. Does the ultimate good after which we all strive have unity, or is it simply a collection of basic goods? What is venial sin? What momentous choice must a child make in his first moral act? In what way do passion, a habitually evil will, and ignorance cause human beings to sin? What is the first cause of moral evil? Do human beings have free will to determine themselves to particular actions? The discussion of these topics focuses upon the interplay of reason, will, and the emotions, examining the inner workings of our moral deliberations. Ultimately, the book reveals how the failure to maintain balance in our deliberations subverts our fidelity to the one true good.

Author : Jason T. Eberl
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Anne L.C. Runehov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319443928

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The Human Being, the World and God by Anne L.C. Runehov Pdf

This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain disorders, based on the idea that in order to understand the common, one has to study the specific. The book shows how the self is thought of as a three-fold emergent self, comprising a relationship between an objective neural segment, a subjective neural segment and a subjective transcendent segment. It explains that the self in the world tackles philosophical problems such as the problem of free will, the problem of evil, the problem of human uniqueness and empathy. It demonstrates how the problem of time also has its place here. For many people, the world includes ultimate reality; hence the book provides an analysis and evaluation of different relationships between human beings and Ultimate Reality (God). The book presents an answer to the philosophical problem of how one could understand divine action in the world.

Author : Michael Welker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802869791

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The Depth of the Human Person by Michael Welker Pdf

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

Author : Hud Hudson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501725715

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A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person by Hud Hudson Pdf

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 : Thomas L. Spalding,James M. Stedman,Christina L. Gagné,Matthew Kostelecky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030339128

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The Human Person by Thomas L. Spalding,James M. Stedman,Christina L. Gagné,Matthew Kostelecky Pdf

This book introduces the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of the human person to a contemporary audience, and reviews the ways in which this view could provide a philosophically sound foundation for modern psychology. The book presents the current state of psychology and offers critiques of the current philosophical foundations. In its presentation of the fundamental metaphysical commitments of the Aristotelian-Thomistic view, it places the human being within the broader understanding of the world. Chapters discuss the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of human and non-human cognition as well as the relationship between cognition and emotion. In addition, the book discusses the Aristotelian-Thomistic conception of human growth and development, including how the virtue theory relates to current psychological approaches to normal human development, the development of character problems that lead to psychopathology, current conceptions of positive psychology, and the place of the individual in the social world. The book ends with a summary of how Aristotelian-Thomistic theory relates to science in general and psychology in particular. The Human Person will be of interest to psychologists and cognitive scientists working within a number of subfields, including developmental psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology, and to philosophers working on the philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, and the interaction between historical philosophy and contemporary science, as well as linguists and computer scientists interested in psychology of language and artificial intelligence.

Author : Peter A. Pagan Aguiar,Terese Auer
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0966922670

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The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom by Peter A. Pagan Aguiar,Terese Auer Pdf

"Collection of essays on the metaphysical underpinnings of intellectual and individual freedom within a civic-political order or cultural milieu"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781594032578

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Neither Beast Nor God by Gilbert Meilaender Pdf

Preface -- Speaking of dignity -- Being human -- Human dignity -- Birth and breeding -- Childhood -- Loyalties -- Death -- Personal dignity -- Confusions -- Equal persons.

Author : Stanislaw Grygiel
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802871541

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Discovering the Human Person by Stanislaw Grygiel Pdf

Expanded version of the Michael J. McGivney lectures delivered from March 18 to 21, 2013 at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Author : Timothy Larsen,Daniel J. Treier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139827508

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The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology by Timothy Larsen,Daniel J. Treier Pdf

Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is already one of the largest and most geographically diverse global religious movements. This Companion, first published in 2007, offers an articulation of evangelical theology that is both faithful to historic evangelical convictions and in dialogue with contemporary intellectual contexts and concerns. In addition to original and creative essays on central Christian doctrines such as Christ, the Trinity, and Justification, it breaks new ground by offering evangelical reflections on issues such as gender, race, culture, and world religions. This volume also moves beyond the confines of Anglo-American perspectives to offer separate essays exploring evangelical theology in African, Asian, and Latin American contexts. The contributors to this volume form an unrivalled list of many of today's most eminent evangelical theologians and important emerging voices.