A Brief History Of The Soul

Being A Course Of Six Sermons by John Hambleton

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Written in English

Published: July 25, 2007 Pages: 202 Downloads: 624

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Format	Hardcover
Number of Pages	202
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Open Library	OL10519772M
ISBN 10	0548173540
ISBN 10	9780548173541

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A Brief History of the Soul brings together historical and contemporary scholarship to examine one of the essential questions of our existence. Stewart Goetz is Ross Frederick Wicks Distinguished Professor in Philosophy and Religion at Ursinus College/5(24).

"A Brief History of the Soul accomplishes two important goals: It provides a concise history of the soul without treating that history as anachronistic, and it constantly relates its topics to contemporary issues in philosophy of mind.

I enthusiastically recommend it, and will use it in my own philosophy of mind courses."/5(24). This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind.

Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soul. This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind.4/5.

A Brief History of the Soul brings together historical and contemporary scholarship to examine one of the essential questions of our existence. Table of Contents. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 The Soul in Greek Thought. 2 The Soul in Medieval Christian Thought.

3 The Soul in Continental Thought. 4 The Soul in Locke, Butler, Reid, Hume, and Kant. A Brief History of the Soul. By STEWART GOETZ and CHARLES TALIAFERRO. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

£ (PB). ISBN: A brief history of the soul this may be but it certainly packs a lot into its pages of A Brief History of a Soul is the story of a lively debate whose arguments, vocabulary, and even subject have evolved over millennia.

In this historical narrative cum apologia, Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro champion “substance dualism,” a philosophical position that asserts the ontologically distinct reality of matter and soul (or body and mind in post-Cartesian terms).Cited by: In A Brief History of the Soul Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro provide a robust argument against the doctrine that humans are nothing more A Brief History Of The Soul book atoms and molecules.

The authors mine the Western philosophical tradition to sketch a sophisticated account of what it means to be an embodied, immaterial soul. A brief history of the soul this may be but it certainly packs a lot into its pages of text.

There is hardly a superﬂuous word, yet the book is remarkably readable and retains its clarity Author: Trevor Stammers. A Brief History of the Soul brings together historical and contemporary scholarship to examine one of the essential questions of our existence.

Stewart Goetz is Ross Frederick Wicks Distinguished Professor in Philosophy and Religion at Ursinus College/5(20). This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind.

A Brief History of the Soul brings together historical and contemporary scholarship to examine one of the essential questions of our existence. About the Author Stewart Goetz is Ross Frederick Wicks Distinguished Professor in Philosophy and Religion at Ursinus College/5(22).

(Dennett33) From the standpoint of a comprehensive form of materialism, talk about “souls” only makes sense as a metaphor for referring to one’s A Brief History of the Soul, First Edition.

© Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro. "A Brief History of the Soul accomplishes two important goals: It provides a concise history of the soul without treating that history as anachronistic, and it constantly relates its topics to contemporary issues in philosophy of mind/5(54).

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I enthusiastically recommend it, and will use it. Martin Corless-Smith Fence Books ($) by Daniel Tiffany. Martin Corless-Smith’s fifth collection of poetry, English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul, is a deeply companionable book; I was touched by its musicality, its powers of reflection, its candor, its sensuality, its intellectual tastes, but also by its sympathetic and contagious magic: the ability to gather into poetry.

Eugene Marais was an Afrikaner who in the course of his lifetime was a journalist, lawyer, poet, and amateur naturalist. The Soul of the Ape, written in the early '20's and only recently unearthed, represents Marais' interpretations of higher primate behavior based on three years of living in close proximity to a tribe of wild chacma baboons in the years following the Boer War.

A Brief History of the Soul provides a clear and concise history of the soul, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind.

Rating: (not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first. A Brief History of the Soul presents a spirited, if unapologetically partisan, introduction to the history of thought on the soul. The book is the third installment in Blackwell's new "Brief Histories of Philosophy" series.

Goetz and Taliaferro trace the history of views of the soul from ancient philosophy through to contemporary philosophy of mind. This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind. Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of th.

Reviews for A Brief History of the Soul Although they may well have their own agenda, Goetz andTaliaferro not only provide an extremely useful chronologicalaccount of how the concept of the soul developed, they alsoilluminate the questions it was meant to solve, and the way theseare not yet satisfactorily laid to rest.

Fence published English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul, Martin Corless-Smith’s poetry collection, in Moving freely through poetry’s pictorial. A Brief History of the Soul (Audio Download): : Charles Taliaferro, Goetz Stewart, Michael Scherer, Audible Studios: Books/5(3).

Perhaps I went into this book with the wrong expectations, but I found it disappointing. There are really interesting and thought provoking discussions along the way; however, as far as giving an evolutionary account of the soul in animals, Swinburne tosses his hands up and says its a mystery!/5.

Writing a history of the concept of the soul, such as the one offered in this book, involves identifying common features shared by extremely different and even contradictory viewpoints.

The soul has never been understood to be an unambiguous, well-defined, simple, or straightforward object. A brief history of the soul 1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOUL A COURSE OF LENT LECTURES.

If, then, this little book, such as it is, be only found to accord with the spirit of the Gospel of Christ, and to have been written with a single eye to his glory ; may He but deign to honour it with his approving smile, and make it the instru- ment of. Description. Moving freely through poetry's pictorial fragmentariness and literal fragments of prose, with a streaming, equanimous, nondiscriminatory referentiality, Corless-Smith proposes and confers with entities in "the janus-faced doorway" of antiquity and contemporaneity; inference and exposition; soul and body—the "experience and the coming-into-history of that experience."Author: Martin Corless-Smith.THE STORY OF A SOUL: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ST.

THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX It will not be amiss to say a brief word here on the brother and sister of Madame Martin. Her sister—in religion, Sister Marie Dosithea—led a life so holy at Le Mans that she was cited by Dom Guéranger, perhaps the most distinguished Benedictine of the nineteenth.The Soul in Medieval Christian Thought.

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