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The soul of the person : a contemporary philosophical psychology / Adrian J. Reimers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reimers, Adrian J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soul--Christianity.
- Soul.
- Christianity--Psychology.
- Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Soul of the Person is a contemporary account of the metaphysical basis for the transcendence of the human person. In being directed toward truth, beauty, and goodness, the human person transcends the physical order and reveals himself as a spiritual, as well as a material, being.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part One. THE CENTRAL ISSUE
- 1. The Status of the Question
- A Nature Divided
- The Heart of the Question: The Reality of the Spiritual
- An Integrated Vision
- The Present Project
- Part Two. THE MATERIAL AND THE SPIRITUAL
- 2. The Existence and Essence of Material Things
- Materiality and Matter
- Materialism
- Being and Existence
- Essence: What a Thing Is
- Significance and Meaning
- The Nature of Physical Things
- Conclusion
- 3. Spirit and the Spiritual
- The Characteristics of the Spiritual
- The Good as Good
- The True as True
- Being as Being
- Beauty
- Status and Characteristics of the Spiritual in Human Nature
- Part Three. Spiritual Action of the Material Being
- 4. The Power to Know
- Belief
- Ideas and Habits
- Two Senses of Truth
- The Mind as a Sign
- 5. Love, Consciousness, and the Power to Choose
- Values and Action
- Habit, Will, and the Practical Dialectic
- Practical Syllogism: Consciousness and the Spiritual
- "A Sign Developing" and "The Meaning of Life"
- Consciousness Puzzles
- Understanding, Belief, and Personality
- Consciousness, Values, and the Self
- Part Four. Metaphysical Conclusions
- 6. Reality and Nature of the Soul
- Materiality and Materialism
- That Human Being Cannot Be Reduced to, or Explained as, a Purely Physical System
- The Immaterial Basis for Human Action
- The Soul: Real and Immaterial
- The Soul's Mode of Being
- Epilogue: God, the Person, and the Afterlife
- The Soul and God
- Light and the Powers of the Soul
- The Soul's Experience Postmortem
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-293) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1669-9
- OCLC:
- 646786260
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