Philosophy of the Human Person

by Reichmann, James B.

• ISBN13: 9780829405040
• ISBN10: 0829405046
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-10-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(7)
The Nature of Philosophic Inquiry	1	(1)
The Nature and Scope of This Study	2	(3)
Philosophy and the College Student	5	(2)
Summary	7	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	7	(1)
The Human Phenomenon of Questioning	8	(15)
What Is Experience?	8	(1)
Fundamental Characteristics of Experience	9	(2)
The Phenomenon of Questioning	11	(1)
The Anatomy of the Question	12	(3)
The False Question	15	(5)
Knowing That I Know	20	(1)
Summary	21	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	22	(1)
The Problem of Human Knowing: A Historical Overview	23	(35)
Introduction	23	(1)
Plato	24	(2)
Aristotle	26	(2)
The Beginning of the Modern Era	28	(1)
Rene Descartes	29	(4)
John Locke	33	(2)
George Berkeley	35	(3)
David Hume	38	(2)
Immanuel Kant	40	(5)
Post-Kantian Era	45	(8)
Summary	53	(3)
Definitions and Conclusions	56	(2)
Sensory Consciousness	58	(13)
Preliminary Notions Regarding Sensory Consciousness	58	(1)
Sensory Acts Contrasted with Vegetative Acts	59	(1)
The Diversification of Sensory Consciousness	60	(2)
Common Sensibles	62	(1)
The Role of the Sensory Image in Sensation	63	(6)
Summary	69	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	69	(2)
The Internal Senses	71	(21)
The Coordinating Sense	71	(2)
The Imagination	73	(4)
The Memory	77	(5)
Forgetting	82	(2)
The Evaluative Sense	84	(2)
Instinctive Knowledge	86	(2)
Summary	88	(2)
Definitions and Conclusions	90	(2)
From Sensation to Intellection	92	(10)
The Unspecialized Nature of the Human Body	92	(3)
Archimedes and the Gold Crown	95	(2)
Inferences Drawn from Archimedes' Discovery	97	(4)
Summary	101	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	101	(1)
Intellection	102	(27)
The Moderate Realism of St. Thomas Aquinas	102	(5)
The Role of the Active Intellect	107	(2)
Aquinas's Theory of Knowledge Contrasted with Those of Other Philosophers	109	(2)
Understanding and Judging	111	(4)
Existential and Essential Judgments	115	(1)
The Significance of Judgment in the Human Intellective Act	116	(1)
Reasoning: The Mind's Struggle for Further Understanding	117	(3)
Thinking as Imperfect Reasoning	120	(2)
Understanding and Error	122	(3)
Summary	125	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	126	(3)
Language	129	(20)
The Language Phenomenon	129	(2)
The Nature and Structure of Language	131	(1)
The Philosophic Significance of Language	132	(1)
The Ambiguity of Language	133	(2)
The Phenomenon of the Plurality of Language	135	(2)
Written Language	137	(3)
The Human as a Universal Speaker	140	(2)
Art and Technology as Language	142	(4)
Summary	146	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	147	(2)
Willing and Choosing	149	(22)
From Understanding to Willing	149	(1)
The Problem of Volition	150	(1)
Human Freedom: The Determinist View	151	(2)
An Anatomy of the Human Free Act	153	(2)
Free Choice as Self-Determination	155	(2)
The Role of Deliberation in the Free Act	157	(4)
Love and the Will	161	(1)
The Indeterminist View	162	(2)
Motivating Factors and Freedom	164	(1)
Sensory Appetites	165	(4)
Summary	169	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	169	(2)
Emotions and Feelings	171	(16)
The Phenomenon of Emotions	171	(1)
Toward the Definition of Emotions	172	(2)
The Significance of Emotional Experience	174	(2)
The Cultivation of Emotions	176	(2)
Controlling the Emotions	178	(1)
The Phenomenon of Humor	179	(5)
Summary	184	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	185	(2)
Habits and Learning	187	(20)
Acquired Operational Structures	187	(2)
The Nature of Habits	189	(2)
Habits and Traits	191	(1)
The Value of Habits	192	(1)
The Division of Habits	192	(1)
Intellective Habits	193	(4)
Appetitive Habits	197	(2)
Habits and Education	199	(3)
Habits and Freedom	202	(1)
Habits and Technology	203	(1)
Summary	204	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	205	(2)
The Human Person	207	(19)
The Human as an Individual	207	(1)
The Human as a Person	208	(1)
Personhood and Personality	209	(4)
Consequences of the Distinction between Personhood and Personality	213	(1)
Knowing Other Persons	213	(1)
Understanding That Another Understands: A Phenomenology of ``Yes''	214	(2)
Toward a Phenomenology of ``No''	216	(2)
The Human Person and the Community	218	(2)
The Human Person and Loneliness	220	(2)
Self-Knowledge and Ethics	222	(1)
The Human Person and Religion	223	(1)
Summary	223	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	224	(2)
The Human as a Living Being	226	(23)
What Is Life?	226	(3)
The Unity of Living Things	229	(4)
The Soul: First Principle of Life	233	(2)
The Human Soul and Its Relation to Body	235	(5)
The Uniqueness of Human Life: Self-Presence	240	(1)
The Phenomenon of Death	241	(2)
Human Death and Immortality	243	(4)
Summary	247	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	247	(2)
The Beginnings of Human Life	249	(24)
The Origin of Human Life: The Problem	249	(1)
The Origin of the Human Soul	250	(2)
The Problem of Individuation	252	(3)
The Beginning of Human Life	255	(2)
The Evolutionary Theory	257	(7)
The Origin of Humankind	264	(6)
Summary	270	(1)
Definitions and Conclusions	270	(3)
Epilogue	273	(4)
Study Questions	277	(26)
Bibliography	303	(34)
Index	337