Lost Souls

Name: Lost Souls
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 9780791457566
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The Philosophic Origins of a Cultural Dilemma

Автор: David Weissman

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: State University of New York Press

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Lost Souls examines the origins and consequences of the philosophic idea that mind and body are dist...

Информация за книгата

Автор

David Weissman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2003

страници

224

EAN

9780791457566

ISBN

0791457567

Enbook ID

04701824

Издател

State University of New York Press

Теглоt

354

Размери

152 x 229 x 6

Пълно описание

Lost Souls examines the origins and consequences of the philosophic idea that mind and body are distinct. The author traces mind-body dualism from Plato, Plotinus, Augustine, and Proclus through Descartes and Kant to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Carnap, and Quine. Mind's separation from body has dominated philosophic thinking for millennia, yet most mental activities are now explained in physical terms. What are the implications if mind is material and mortal? Considering both philosophic and scientific ideas about mind, David Weissman explores our options. Rejecting the claim that the character and existence of other things are an effect of the ways we think about or perceive them, he reexamines such topics as meaning and truth, human significance, self, and society. He argues that philosophers have the rare opportunity to renew inquiry by invoking the questions that once directed them: What are we? What is our place in the world? What concerns are appropriate to being here?

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