The Human Soul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cicovacki, Predrag.

Series:

Series in Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soul--Philosophy.

Soul.

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Human Soul

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, DE : Vernon Press, 2021.

Summary:

This collection of essays is dedicated to a recently deceased philosopher and humanist, Nalin Ranasinghe. His central philosophical and humanistic preoccupation was with the human soul. Not surprisingly, his greatest inspiration was Socrates' credo "Care for your soul," and the title of his first book was 'The Soul of Socrates'. In this and his later writings, Ranasinghe expressed his growing concern over the idea that the human soul has been highjacked due to the way our civilization has developed: the highest and noblest aspirations of our civilization have been replaced by our obsession with money, pleasure, and power. We now live in a time where we do not know who we are, nor who the people around us are.Despite all of the technical gadgets connecting us virtually, this is the age of disconnect and loneliness, as well as of the degradations of humanity. Ranasinghe insisted that the two keys for recovery are the self-knowledge of the soul and a continuous dialogue with others. We need to relearn how to relate to ourselves and others as unique individuals, not as objects for the satisfaction of our needs.Following his ideas, the twenty essays presented here are divided into two parts: "the soul in reflection" and "the soul in dialogue." The contributors come from various countries around the globe and work in different disciplines, and their chapters aim to revive our interest in the soul and the obscured core of our humanity. This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy; however, the essays are written in a non-technical language, also making them accessible to the general audience.

Contents:

A Chronology of Nalin Ranasinghe; Forward: To Nalin, My Dazzling Friend / Gwendalin Grewal ; Introduction: To Bet on the Soul / Predrag Cicovacki ; Part I: The Soul in Dialogue. Lanya's Search for Soul / Percy Mark ; Heart to Heart: The Self-Transcending Soul's Desire for the Transcendent / Roger Corriveau ; The Soul of Heloise / Predrag Cicovacki ; Got Soul : Black Women and Intellectualism / Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou ; The Soul and Ecology / Rebecca Bratten Weiss ; Rousseau's Divine Botany and the Soul / Alexandra Cook ; Diderot on Inconstancy in the Soul / Miran Božovič ; Dialogue in Love as a Constitutive Act of Human Spirit / Alicja Pietras. Part II: The Soul in Reflection. Why Do We Tell Stories in Philosophy? A Circumstantial Proof of the Existence of the Soul / Jure Simoniti ; The Soul of Socrates / Roger Crisp ; Care for the Soul of Plato / Vitomir Mitevski ; Soul, Self, and Immortality / Chris Megone ; Morality, Personality, the Human Soul / Ruben Apressyan ; Strategic Sergeants or Soul-Beings? On Military Virtue and the Moral Education of Soldiers / Christian Göbel ; How to Outrun the History Train: Meaning in a Soulless World / Rick Werner ; Ad Astra? Progress, the Soul, and a New Ethical Imperative for the Second Space Age / Michael J. Thate ; Cyber-Souls: The State of the Soul in the Posthuman Condition / John D. Caputo ; Against Abstract Identities: Becoming a Soul in an Increasingly Soulless World / Wayne Cristaudo. Appendix: Nalin Ranasinghe's Last Written Essay What about the Laestrygonians? The Odyssey's Dialectic of Disaster, Deceit, and Discovery.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781648893322

1648893325

OCLC:

1272989635