Description
This portrait also shows how we have many irreducible parts, principles, and powers. Various chapters explore the irreducibility of our subjectivity, senses, intellect, freedom, and affections, and of our souls, bodies, acts of existence, and activities. Readers will also find explorations of divine simplicity and causality, the nature of matter, organisms, and artifacts, all of which must be understood to fully grasp our own irreducibility. In considering how to synthesize various traditions' claims, the book also offers new solutions to a number of prominent debates in contemporary Catholic philosophy. These include debates over natural law, the natural desire to see God, the separated soul, the nature of gifts, integralism and personalism, idealist and realist phenomenology, and various scholastic accounts of the act of existence. The picture of persons thereby developed helps the reader to perceive persons more perfectly.
About the Author
Mark K. Spencer is associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, MN.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813235202
Author Mark K. Spencer
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint The Catholic University of America Press
Publisher The Catholic University of America Press
Weight(grams) 718g