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Your whole life : beyond childhood and adulthood / James Bernard Murphy.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, James Bernard, 1958- author.
- Series:
- Haney Foundation series.
- Haney Foundation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Developmental biology.
- Developmental psychology.
- Human beings.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Identity (Psychology).
- Life cycle, Human--Philosophy.
- Life cycle, Human.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphiam, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- In this book, the author defends the substantial unity of a human person whose life endures through time. Because a human being is an irreducible whole (including biological, psychological, and narrative powers), our lives can have personal coherence over time. The whole temporal expanse of a life is prior to any of its stages, just as a whole human person is prior to any of her organs or powers. We can tell stories about our past, present, and future only because we possess a certain kind of complex unity at any one time. What we are as human beings makes it possible for us to lead the life of a human person"--.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction. The Story of Your Life
- Chapter 1. Human Nature from a Developmental Perspective
- Chapter 2. Development as the Recapitulation of Nature in Aristotle
- Chapter 3. Development as Preformation in Augustine’s Confessions
- Chapter 4. Development as the Recapitulation of History in Rousseau
- Chapter 5. Development as Juvenilization in the Synoptic Gospels
- Chapter 6. All of Me: Stages and the Whole of Life
- Chapter 7. What Am I? Human Beings and Human Persons
- Chapter 8. Who Am I? A Storybook Life
- Conclusion. A Practical Guide to Life Writing
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812297096
- 0812297091
- OCLC:
- 1156057467
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