Death of the soul : from Descartes to the computer /
Ever since Descartes saw nature as a vast, interlocking machine and science banished the soul, philosophers have been uncomfortable with this materialistic outlook. Barrett (Irrational Man) here looks at the way in which various thinkers have attempted to put the human soul or self in the forefront...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Garden City, New York : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1986. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : Banishing consciousness
- Part I : Gathering of a new age. A century of genius
- Soul and reason
- The puzzle of sensation
- Part II : The pivot. A map of the modern world
- The power of the mind
- The finitude of mind
- Duty and beauty
- Part III : Dispersion. The substantial soul
- The disappearing self
- Analytic philosophy and the computer
- Epilogue.