In search of the soul : a philosophical essay / John Cottingham.
| Author/creator | Cottingham, John, 1943- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] |
| Description | xii, 174 pages : illustration ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Humanity in Quest of the Soul. The Risk of Loss ; Dimensions of Soul ; The Soul and Human Nature ; The Soul and Moral Integration ; But Why the Soul? -- The Evolution of the Soul. What Is the Soul? ; Out of This World? ; From Souls to Ghosts ; Descartes and the Shrinking Soul ; Cartesian Automata and the Creativity of Thought ; The Soul-Body Unit and Descartes's Trialism ; The Ethical Implications of Human Embodiment -- Soul, Science, and Subjectivity. Objective Science and Subjective Experience ; Consciousness: Illusion or Irreducible Reality? ; The Panpsychist Turn ; Finding a Place for Consciousness ; The Domain of the Soul -- The Partly Hidden Soul. From Soul-Searching to Self-Fashioning ; The Opacity of the Soul and Psychic Integration ; The Depths of the Psyche ; The Soul's Hidden Yearning for God -- The Soul and the Transcendent. Reaching Forward to the Transcendent ; Natural versus Supernatural: The Unhelpful Contrast ; Immortal Longings and the Care of the Soul: From Metaphysics to Praxis ; Transcendence and Our Human Destiny. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0691174423 |
| ISBN | 9780691174426 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |