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"Once Out of Nature" offers an original interpretation of
Augustine's theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws
on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to
analyze Augustine's conception of temporality, eternity, and the
human and transhuman condition. In Nightingale's view, the notion
of embodiment illuminates a set of problems much larger than the
body itself: it captures the human experience of being an embodied
soul dwelling on earth. In Augustine's writings, humans live both
in and out of nature--exiled from Eden and punished by mortality,
they are "resident aliens" on earth. While the human body is
subject to earthly time, the human mind is governed by what
Nightingale calls psychic time. For the human psyche always
stretches away from the present moment--where the physical body
persists--into memories and expectations. As Nightingale explains,
while the body is present in the here and now, the psyche cannot
experience self-presence. Thus, for Augustine, the human being
dwells in two distinct time zones, in earthly time and in psychic
time. The human self, then, is a moving target. Adam, Eve, and the
resurrected saints, by contrast, live outside of time and nature:
these transhumans dwell in an everlasting present. Nightingale
connects Augustine's views to contemporary debates about
transhumans and suggests that Augustine's thought reflects our own
ambivalent relationship with our bodies and the earth. "Once Out of
Nature" offers a compelling invitation to ponder the boundaries of
the human.
How does God think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must
a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such
questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including
those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics
and Plotinus. This volume encompasses a series of studies by
leading scholars, revisiting key moments of ancient philosophy and
highlighting the theme of human and divine rationality in both
moral and cognitive psychology. It is a tribute to Professor A. A.
Long, and reflects multiple themes of his own work.
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Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
Barbara Darling-Smith; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lannstroem, …
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R3,920
Discovery Miles 39 200
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists
address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings
together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the
ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global
struggle. With references to Homer's the Iliad and Buddhist
teachings, these essays demonstrate that while selfhood is an
illusion, there is still a conventional self that must be held
responsible. This book finds the underlying distinctions between
ultimate and conventional understandings of selfhood, which lead to
variations on the role of responsibility in the community and
government. With essays from CEOs to historical theologians,
Responsibility offers a variety of perspectives that will captivate
the interest of philosophers and scholars of ethnics and religion.
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Responsibility (Paperback)
Barbara Darling-Smith; Contributions by Roger T. Ames, Thomas M. Chappell, M. David Eckel, Anna Lannstroem, …
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R1,771
Discovery Miles 17 710
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists
address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings
together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the
ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global
struggle. With references to Homer's the Iliad and Buddhist
teachings, these essays demonstrate that while selfhood is an
illusion, there is still a conventional self that must be held
responsible. This book finds the underlying distinctions between
ultimate and conventional understandings of selfhood, which lead to
variations on the role of responsibility in the community and
government. With essays from CEOs to historical theologians,
Responsibility offers a variety of perspectives that will captivate
the interest of philosophers and scholars of ethnics and religion.
How does God think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must
a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such
questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including
those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics
and Plotinus. This volume encompasses a series of studies by
leading scholars, revisiting key moments of ancient philosophy and
highlighting the theme of human and divine rationality in both
moral and cognitive psychology. It is a tribute to Professor A. A.
Long, and reflects multiple themes of his own work.
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