The Human Person and Society
Author | : Dasheng Zhu |
Publisher | : CRVP |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781565180871 |
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Author | : Dasheng Zhu |
Publisher | : CRVP |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781565180871 |
Author | : D. S. Amalorpavadass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jason T. Eberl |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2020-06-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0268107750 |
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 | : Christian Smith |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226765946 |
The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence.
Author | : Mark K. Spencer |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2022-03-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813235200 |
"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 | : Dasheng Zhu |
Publisher | : CRVP |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781565180871 |
Author | : Xiping Jin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alois Handlbauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Personality |
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Author | : Peter Jarvis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1136617175 |
Learning is a lifelong process and we are the result of our own learning. But how exactly do we learn to be a person through living? In this book, Peter Jarvis draws together all the aspects of becoming a person into the framework of learning. Considering the ongoing, "nature versus nurture" debate over how we become people, Jarvis’s study of nurture - what learning is primarily about – builds on a detailed recognition of our genetic inheritance and evolutionary reality. It demonstrates the ways in which we become social human beings: internalising, accommodating and rejecting the culture to which we are exposed (both primarily and through electronic mediation) while growing and developing as human beings and people. As learning theory moves away from traditional, single-discipline approaches it is possible to place the person at the centre of all thinking about learning, by emphasising a multi-disciplinary approach. This wide-ranging study draws on established research from a number of disciplines into the complexities that make us who we are. It will appeal to a wide variety of audiences: those involved in all fields of education, the study of learning and development, human resource development, psychology, theology and the caring professions.
Author | : G. E. R. Lloyd |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199654727 |
This cross-cultural study explores the diversity of views that humans have held on being, humanity, and understanding. It asks how far we are bound by the conceptual systems to which we belong, and explores topics such as ontology, morality philosophy of language, and communication.