Images of the Human : The Philosophy of the Human Person in a Religious Context

by Leonard A. Kennedy; Hunter L. Brown; John Snyder

• ISBN13: 9780829408263
• ISBN10: 0829408266
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source

Summary

Images of the human is the collective effort of thirteen philosophy professors to address the questions human beings have been asking for centuries. The book presents selections from the major works of eighteen of the best-known philosophers from ancient to modern times. Each chapter focuses on the writings of a different philosopher - from Plato to Nietzsche, Augustine to Sartre - and includes an introduction and critical comentary.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
Plato: The Human Person as Spirit	1	(48)
Introduction and commentary
R. E. Houser
Introduction	3	(6)
Selected Text	9	(20)
Phaedo
Commentary	29	(20)
Aristotle: The Human Person as a Besouled Body	49	(40)
Introduction and commentary
R. E. Houser
Introduction	51	(4)
Selected Text	55	(14)
De Anima [On Soul]
Commentary	69	(20)
Saint Augustine: The Human Person as Relational and Volitional	89	(30)
Introduction and commentary
Leonard A. Kennedy
Introduction	91	(4)
Selected Texts	95	(12)
On the Trinity
The Confessions
The City of God
Commentary	107	(12)
Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Human Person as Embodied Spirit	119	(28)
Introduction and commentary
Leonard A. Kennedy
Introduction	121	(4)
Selected Text	125	(10)
Summa Theologiae
Commentary	135	(12)
Rene Descartes: The Human Person as a Dualism	147	(36)
Introduction and commentary
Desmond J. Fitzgerald
Introduction	149	(6)
Selected Text	155	(12)
Discourse on Method
Commentary	167	(16)
David Hume: The Human Person as a Construct	183	(30)
Introduction and commentary
Hunter Brown
Introduction	185	(6)
Selected Text	191	(12)
A Treatise of Human Nature
Commentary	203	(10)
Søren Kierkegaard: The Human Person as a Collision of Opposites	213	(38)
Introduction and commentary
Dennis L. Hudecki
Introduction	215	(6)
Selected Texts	221	(14)
The Journals of Kierkegaard
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments
The Sickness unto Death
Either/Or
Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy
Commentary	235	(16)
Karl Marx: The Human Person as Worker	251	(44)
Introduction and commentary
Michael T. Ryan
Introduction	253	(4)
Selected Texts	257	(20)
On the Jewish Question
Grundrisse
The German Ideology
Capital
Toward a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction
The Communist Manifesto
Commentary	277	(18)
William James: The Human Person as Elusive	295	(36)
Introduction and commentary
Hunter Brown
Introduction	297	(8)
Selected Texts	305	(14)
Principles of Psychology
Psychology: Briefer Course
Commentary	319	(12)
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Human Person as Will to Power	331	(36)
Introduction and commentary
John J. Snyder
Introduction	333	(4)
Selected Text	337	(14)
The Will to Power
Commentary	351	(16)
Sigmund Freud: The Human Person as Sexual	367	(30)
Introduction and commentary
Deal W. Hudson
Introduction	369	(6)
Selected Text	375	(10)
Civilization and Its Discontents
Commentary	385	(12)
Edith Stein: The Human Person as Male and Female	397	(36)
Introduction and commentary
Prudence Allen
Introduction	399	(6)
Selected Text	405	(14)
Essays on Woman
Commentary	419	(14)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Human Person as Linguistic Animal	433	(34)
Introduction and commentary
John J. Haldane
Introduction	435	(8)
Selected Texts	443	(14)
Philosophical Investigations
Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology
Commentary	457	(10)
B. F. Skinner: The Human Person as Necessitated	467	(38)
Introduction and commentary
Celia Wolf-Devine
Introduction	469	(4)
Selected Texts	473	(16)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Science and Human Behavior
Walden Two
Commentary	489	(16)
Jean-Paul Sartre: The Human Person as Freedom	505	(30)
Introduction and commentary
Leonard A. Kennedy
Introduction	507	(4)
Selected Text	511	(12)
Existentialism
Commentary	523	(12)
Simone de Beauvoir: The Human Person as Co-existent	535	(42)
Introduction and commentary
Janine D. Langan
Introduction	537	(8)
Selected Texts	545	(16)
The Second Sex
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Les ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir
Commentary	561	(16)
Miguel de Unamuno and Ernest Becker: The Human Person as Mortal	577
Introduction and commentary
John D. Morgan
Introduction	579
Selected Texts
Unamuno, Selected Text	583
The Tragic Sense of Life
Becker, Selected Text	587
The Denial of Death
Commentary	597