The rise and fall of soul and self : an intellectual history of personal identity / Raymond Martin and John Barresi.

By:

Martin, Raymond, 1941-

Contributor(s):

Barresi, John, 1941-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0231510675
9780231510677
0231137443
9780231137447
1280598190
9781280598197
9786613628022
6613628026

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rise and fall of soul and self.DDC classification:

126.09 22

LOC classification:

BD438.5 .M375 2006eb

NLM classification:

2008 G-576
BD 438.5

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08.36

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Contents:

Introduction -- From myth to science -- Individualism and subjectivity -- People of the book -- Resurrected self -- The stream divides -- Aristotelian synthesis -- Care of the soul -- Mechanization of nature -- Naturalizing the soul -- Philosophy of spirit -- Science of human nature -- Before the fall -- Paradise lost -- Everything that happened and what it means.

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Summary: Raymond Martin and John Barresi trace the development of Western ideas about personal identity and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. They begin with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. Paul, Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne. In their coverage of the emergence of a new mechanistic conception of nat.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-361) and indexes.

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Raymond Martin and John Barresi trace the development of Western ideas about personal identity and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. They begin with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. Paul, Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne. In their coverage of the emergence of a new mechanistic conception of nat.

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