What does it mean to be human? What is a person? Where did we come from?
Many answers have been offered throughout history in response to these perennial questions, including those from biological, anthropological, sociological, political, and theological approaches. And yet the questions remain.
Philosopher Joshua Rasmussen offers his own step-by-step examination into the fundamental nature and ultimate origin of persons. Using accessible language and clear logic, he argues that the answer to the question of what it means to be a person sheds light not only on our own nature but also on the existence of the one who gave us life.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing the Inquiry
Part One: The Nature of You
2. Your Feelings
3. Your Thoughts
4. Your Sight
5. Your Will
6. Your Value
7. Your Body
8. Your Self
Part Two: The Origin of You
9. The Construction Problem
10. The Binding Problem
11. The Identity Problem
12. How Consciousness Can Emerge
13. Your Ultimate Origin
14. Conclusion
Bibliography
General Index
Sobre o autor
Joshua Rasmussen (Ph D, Notre Dame) is associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. He is the author of How Reason Can Lead to God, Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth, and The Bridge of Reason, coauthor of Necessary Existence and Is God the Best Explanation of Things?: A Dialogue, and coeditor of A New Theist Response to the New Atheists.
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