| Description |
175 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
The problem : the attack on the person -- Minds and brains : the person as machine -- The loss of the person in psychology : Freud -- The loss of the person in psychology : behaviorism -- The loss of the person in sociology -- Feeling the loss : why care? -- Grappling with the loss -- Reinterpreters of the personal -- Limiters of science -- Humanizers of science -- Recovering the person : thinking Christianly about man -- Man in a personal universe |
| Summary |
The human quest for self-understanding is ancient. It transcends the boundaries between ordinary folk and philosophers and it overlaps with many academic disciplines, including psychology, sociology, philosophy and theology. Actually, the quest is not essentially academic; it is a human quest, pursued by persons in every age. With this in mind, philosopher C. Stephen Evans takes a look at the human sciences and their contribution to this self-understanding. Evans first presents a basic problem in these sciences today: the attack on the concept of personhood. He reviews the contemporary understanding of mind and brain: Is a person only a thinking machine or a programmed organism? --From publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Personalism.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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| LC no. |
77155055 |
| ISBN |
0877847983 |
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