‘The question of what it is to be a human person is the biggest intellectual question of our day.’
Keith Ward has taught philosophy and theology in British universities for the past 40 years, and he is now weighing in on a major intellectual battle: whether human persons are purely materialistic — nothing but matter — or whether there is another, deeply valuable part of us, which transcends our bodies in nature and moral worth: the soul.
For centuries philosophers have de...
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Introduction 7
Chapter 1 Dualism, minds, and bodies: the problem stated 9
Chapter 2 A range of philosophical views about what is really real 21
Chapter 3 The...
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Keith Ward is a fellow of the British Academy and Professional Research Fellow at Heythrop College, London. He was formerly Professor of Religion at King’s College, London...