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Author: Jörg Noller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1000450392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrong collection on a perennial topic in philosophy Distinctive in bringing together three approaches to personal identity: metaphysical, phenomenological and social
Author: Marya Schechtman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0191507784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJudgments of personal identity stand at the heart of our daily transactions. Family life, friendships, institutions of justice, and systems of compensation all rely on our ability to reidentify people. It is not as obvious as it might at first appear just how to express this relation between facts about personal identity and practical interests in a philosophical account of personal identity. A natural thought is that whatever relation is proposed as the one which constitutes the sameness of a person must be important to us in just the way identity is. This simple understanding of the connection between personal identity and practical concerns has serious difficulties, however. One is that the relations that underlie our practical judgments do not seem suited to providing a metaphysical account of the basic, literal continuation of an entity. Another is that the practical interests we associate with identity are many and varied and it seems impossible that a single relation could simultaneously capture what is necessary and sufficient for all of them. Staying Alive offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests which allows us to overcome these difficulties and to offer a view in which the most basic and literal facts about personal identity are inherently connected to practical concerns. This account, the 'Person Life View', sees persons as unified loci of practical interaction, and defines the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life made up of dynamic interactions among biological, psychological, and social attributes and functions mediated through social and cultural infrastructure.
Author: Robert Pasnau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780521001892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new study of Aquinas and his central project: the understanding of human nature.
Author: Rachel Barney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-02-16
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0521899664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.
Author: Chantal Jaquet
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1474433200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through affects, actions and passions.
Author: Graham Priest
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0199688257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores philosophical questions concerning the one and the many, covering a wide range of issues in metaphysics and deploying techniques of paraconsistent logic while bringing together traditions of Western and Asian thought.
Author: Etienne Gilson
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780898707489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Lectures ... given at Harvard University in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword.
Author: Pope John Paul II
Publisher: Pauline Books & Media
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hōsaku Matsuo
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780887063916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis clear and elegant translation reveals how a modern Japanese thinker dared to show the basic flaw of Western epistemology. In unmasking this limitation, Matsuo presents an Eastern view of a unified experience, and provides an epistemological basis for comparative philosophy. Matsuo notes that while early Greek thought began by focusing on the right counsel ("Know thyself"), since then Western thought has been influenced by empiricistic analysis fired by the rise of scientific philosophy. The author thus turns to Eastern epistemology, in particular Buddhist thought, for clues to the unified experience. The seminal idea of emptiness (śūnyatā) plays a distinct role in this discovery. The concept of emptiness encompasses the whole dimension of perception where there is no room for separation into mind and body and/or any other form of dichotomy. Once it is known that the total dimension of perception—the logic of unity—functions in each and every person, then and only then can the field of comparative thought and philosophy be cleared of al preconceptions and move into a more fruitful exchange of ideas. Until such a time, Matsuo claims, we are hopelessly engaged in merely refining the epistemological process without ever being able to understand the very basis of intelligence.
Author: Alfredo Pereira (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-09-12
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1107026296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book on consciousness spans the relation of individuals with the world and the individual's constitution at different organizational levels. Covering a diversity of perspectives and presenting a theoretical synthesis, the book will stimulate the current debate on the nature of consciousness, strengthening a more systematic approach to the phenomenon.
