Seeing ourselves : reclaiming humanity from god and science /
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| Author / Creator: | Tallis, Raymond, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2020. ©2020 |
| Description: | xvi, 463 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12027032 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part I. Overture
- 1. Humanism and anti-humanism
- Part II. Our Human Being
- 2. Against naturalism: neither ape nor angel
- Addendum Some observations on animal cognition: making it tougher for killjoys
- 3. I am and it is: persons and organisms
- Addendum Ambodiment: the I and the it
- 4. Human being: in and out of time
- 5. The elusive, inescapable self
- 6. The mystery of human agency
- 7. Humanity against finitude: transhumanist dreams
- Part III. Flourishing without God
- 8. "The sky is empty"
- 9. Meaning and purpose
- 10. Reclaiming ourselves
- Epilogue: an inconclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index