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1 online resource (xv, 131 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Beyond the Centaur questions the accuracy and usefulness of the virtually unquestioned ancient consensus that persons are composed of unequally valued, hierarchically stacked antagonistic components, usually soul or mind and body. Part I explores the gradual historical development of this notion of person. Part II consists of a thought experiment, examining an understanding of persons, not as stacked components, but as intelligent bodies -- one entity. It explores how a new understanding of persons can affect in important and fruitful ways how we live: how we move, feel, think, believe, and die. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Influence.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body (Philosophy) |
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Theological anthropology.
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Theological anthropology. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Print version: Miles, Margaret R. (Margaret Ruth), 1937- Beyond the centaur : imagining the intelligent body. Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, ©2014 xv, 131 pages 9781625644206 |
| ISBN |
9781630873547 (electronic book) |
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1630873543 (electronic book) |
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9781625644206 |
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1625644205 |
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