Seeing ourselves : reclaiming humanity from god and science /

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Author / Creator:Tallis, Raymond, author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2020.
Description:1 online resource ( xvi, 463 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12320741
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ISBN:9781788212328
1788212320
9781788212311
1788212312
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-450) and index.
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Other form:Print version: Tallis, Raymond. Seeing ourselves. First edition. Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2020 9781788212311
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Overture
  • Chapter 1 Humanism and anti-humanism
  • Part II Our Human Being
  • Chapter 2 Against naturalism: neither ape nor angel
  • Addendum: Some observations on animal cognition: making it tougher for killjoys
  • Chapter 3 I am and it is: persons and organisms
  • Addendum Ambodiment: the I and the it
  • Chapter 4 Human being: in and out of time
  • Chapter 5 The elusive, inescapable self
  • Chapter 6 The mystery of human agency
  • Chapter 7 Humanity against finitude: transhumanist dreams
  • Part III Flourishing without God
  • Chapter 8 "The sky is empty"
  • Chapter 9 Meaning and purpose
  • Chapter 10 Reclaiming ourselves
  • Epilogue: an inconclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.