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Pendergast III, Michael

 
9780595446537: The Philosophy of the Human Soul: A Radical Postmodern View of Corporeal and Incorporeal Substances
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ISBN 10 : 0595446531 ISBN 13 : 9780595446537
Editeur : iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

What does it really mean to be human?In this dissertation, philosopher, scientist, and engineer Michael Pendergast examines the issue. Are we merely rational animals who are programmed to act in certain ways and not truly responsible for anything we do, as some modern liberals and scientists would have it? or are we some mixture of body, mind, and spirit that possesses some freedom of thought and act, as the ancient Greeks and Medieval Christian scholastics would have it? Or, perhaps, are we humans are something more-something far stranger still?In the course of this examination of the human being that ultimately asks whether the soul exists, and what it is and does-or could do, if properly understood-the author is forced to examine whether science, philosophy, and even religion (especially given the paradigms they currently operate under) can answer his question. The conclusions he draws concerning science, philosophy, and religion are as troubling as the answers concerning the soul-which turns out to be nothing less than an infinite spirit that is not limited by space or time-are uplifting.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What does it really mean to be human?In this dissertation, philosopher, scientist, and engineer Michael Pendergast examines the issue. Are we merely rational animals who are programmed to act in certain ways and not truly responsible for anything we do, as some modern liberals and scientists would have it? or are we some mixture of body, mind, and spirit that possesses some freedom of thought and act, as the ancient Greeks and Medieval Christian scholastics would have it? Or, perhaps, are we humans are something more-something far stranger still?In the course of this examination of the human being that ultimately asks whether the soul exists, and what it is and does-or could do, if properly understood-the author is forced to examine whether science, philosophy, and even religion (especially given the paradigms they currently operate under) can answer his question. The conclusions he draws concerning science, philosophy, and religion are as troubling as the answers concerning the soul-which turns out to be nothing less than an infinite spirit that is not limited by space or time-are uplifting.

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Pendergast is a retired B-52 aircraft commander and former instructor of philosophy at a well-known Mid-western Christian university, where he taught logic, introductory philosophy, and ethics. Now widowed with three grown children, this graduate of Cornell University, Siena College, and the Air War University lives and works in Maine.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595446531
ISBN 13 
9780595446537
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
588
Coordonnées du fabricant
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