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Main Author:	Azar, Larry (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Hanover, Mass. Christopher Publ. House 1989
Subjects:	Philosophical anthropology Philosophische Anthropologie
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Physical Description:	XIX 432, S. Ill.
ISBN:	0815804520

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adam_text	MAN: COMPUTER, APEr OR ANGEL? by Larry Azar THE CHRISTOPHER PUBLISHING HOUSE HANOVER, MASSACHUSETTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface vii Author s Biography viii Introduction ix Foreword xi PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: The Character of Philosophy 1 Wisdom, wonder, mystery A definition of philosophy; ultimate vs proximate, philosophy and science Chapter 2: Lines of Demarcation 9 A note on terminology The attack on introspection: Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology Introspection and subjectivity: Phenomenology and Existentialism Ethology, Sociobiology, Cultural Anthropology Chapter 3: Some Observations on The History of Psychology 15 The origins of psychology: Plato and Aristotle The philosophy of Descartes The birth of experimental psychology: the triumph of mathematics over the psyche The reaction against materialistic psychology; Humanistic Psychology The present condition of experimental psychology Philosophy s supplementary role PART II: THEORIES OF LIFE Chapter 4: Mechanism 23 Prolegomenon Artificial intelligence, brain size, cybernetics The substantial and the accidental; Aristotle and Descartes Reductionism Chapter 5: Vitalism 33 The hylomorphic doctrine The application of hylomorphism to living beings The soul as the substantial form and first act of the body Chapter 6: An Evaluation of Vitalism 45 A thing acts according to its nature Dynamic finality: biological corroboration Intrinsic unity: biological evidence Psychological corroboration: intrinsic unity Psychological evidence: dynamic finality Chapter 7: An Evaluation of Mechanism 59 The loss of intrinsic unity and dynamic finality Structure as a substitute explanation Structural vs functional definitions Chapter 8: Antireductionism 69 The accidental vs the essential: Munn, Russell, Dewey, Fodor, deChardin, Simpson, Sinnott, Frankl, Freud, Jung, Walshe, Communists Chapter 9: A Final Word on Methodology 77 The ways in which a thing can be in another thing Physical vs chemical changes Scientists insist upon duality Genetic composition not a differentiating norm Scientific models as postulates Protoplasm and DNA PART III: THE MODERN DILEMMA Chapter 10: The Importance of Philosophical Anthropology 89 Philosophy as the critic of abstractions Consequences stemming from different interpretations of the mean- ing of man - : Shakespeare, Sophocles, Augustine, Frankl, Plato vs Darwin, Hitler, Mao Tse-tung, Gould, Sagan, Loeb Biological entities and moral obligation Philosophical anthropology in relation to democracy Scientific determinism and human freedom: Freud, May, Allport, Maslow Atheistic acknowledgment of the need for God: Nietzsche and Sartre PART IV: THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIVING BEINGS Chapter 11: The Nature of Life 103 Procedure: a proper starting point Toward a definition of living Vital acts as effects of living beings Living as a substantial predicate The need for powers The distinction of powers PART V: VEGETATIVE ACTIVITIES Chapter 12: The Nutritive Function 117 The metabolic process: what is food? Chapter 13: The Function of Growth 119 Incretion as opposed to accretion: proper size Nonbiotic growth Chapter 14: Man s Reproductive Function 123 Cellular division: mitosis vs meiosis Chapter 15: The Viruses: A Missing Link? 127 Bacteria and viruses The T2 bacteriophage Replication vs reproduction PART VI: HUMAN COGNITION: SENSATION Chapter 16: Introduction 131 Chapter 17: External Sensation 133 The constitutuion of a sense Sight Hearing Smell Taste Touch Chapter 18: Internal Sensation 141 Introduction Imagination Memory The central sense The estimative sense: instinct PART VII: HUMAN COGNITION: INTELLECTION Chapter 19: The Nature of The Intellect 151 Introduction Symbolic communication Ideas Reflection Summary and conclusion Chapter 20: The Object of Intellectual Knowledge 171 Atomism, Platonism, Aristotelianism Abstraction implies matter Knowledge of the self Chapter 21: The Genesis of Knowledge 175 Essences do not exist apart from their accidents The role of the agent intellect and the cognitional species The phantasm The knowing intellect Knowledge as a spiritual biology Chapter 22: The Nature of Knowledge 189 Knowledge as a formal sign The question of distance in knowledge Knowledge as an intentional union Knowledge not a change Chapter 23: Knowledge vs Noncognitive Responses 195 Prolegomenon Tropisms belong to biology, not psychology • Tropism as a function of growth Characteristics of tropisms The difference between a tropism and a reflex Reflexologists Pavlov, Watson, Skinner Critiques by Maslow and Goldstein Chapter 24: Animal Intelligence 205 Principal points to be considered The definition of intelligence A comparison of the highest type of animal with the most primitive types of man Man the tool maker Conventional language The power of abstraction Learning by trial and error Learning by insight Learning by training A comprehensive view of animal activity Morgan s law PART VIII: HUMAN APPETITION Chapter 25: Appetancy in General 229 Appetancy as natural inclination The end as a good Elicited appetite Characteristics of appetancy Chapter 26: Sense Appetites: The Emotions 235 Emotion, passion, feeling, sentiment Acts of the irascible appetite Acts of the concupiscible appetite Chapter 27: Rational Appetite: The Will 239 Suprasensible goods The object of the will Chapter 28: Man s Ultimate End 243 Proximate and ultimate ends Happiness as an end The nature of happiness God as an end Chapter 29: Human Love 249 The fundamental nature of love Benevolence Eros vs agape Love and sex Coitus and copulation Friendship Love as the successor of knowledge PART IX: MAN THE PERSON Chapter 30: Human Freedom 261 The problem of freedom: Skinner, Jaspers, Frankl, Freud, James, Sartre Freedom not opposed to necessity Acts of intellect and will compared Intellect and will as causes Inadequate notions of freedom Freedom of specification and freedom of exercise Chapter 31: The Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Human Soul 275 Essential simplicity of the soul Definitive presence Spiritual nature The soul as substance and form The origin of the soul The mediate and immediate animation doctrines The question of immortality Death as an anomaly Plato and Aristotle on immortality St Thomas on immortality Chapter 32: The Uniqueness of Man 295 Introduction Science Religion Homo faber Music Progress History Symbolic communication and language machines Art Risibility Man the stranger Man the person Transcendence as a characteristic of human nature Spirituality as the essence of personality PART X: EVOLUTION Chapter 33: Scientific and Philosophic Aspects of Evolution 315 Evolution and God Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace Natural Selection as a metaphor Ambiguity of the fittest Darwin as a racist Nazism Communism Intellect and will as spiritual powers The person as the foundation of morality Cosmic vs organic vs cultural evolution Geneticists vs paleontologists: gradual vs saltatory evolution Evolution as a philosophical topic: Spencer EPILOGUE 321 FOOTNOTES 323 BIBLIOGRAPHY 411 INDEX 429
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