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What does it mean to be a bodily soul?
Evans, C. Stephen Rickabaugh, Brandon L.
Evans, C. Stephen
Rickabaugh, Brandon L.
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Abstract
Evangelical scholars have recently offered criticisms of mind-body dualism from the disciplines of theology, philosophy, and neuroscience. We offer several arguments as to why these reasons for abandoning mind-body dualism fail. Additionally, we offer a positive thesis, a dualism that brings together the best aspects of the Cartesian view and the Thomistic view of human persons. The result is a substance dualism that treats the nature of embodiment quite seriously. This view explains why we, as souls, require a resurrected body as well as accounting for the great good of our embodiment in general. A human person is at the same time wholly soul and yet fully bodily.
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substance dualism, philosophy of mind, cartesian dualism, Thomistic dualism, ontology of human persons, philosophical anthropology, non-reductive physicalism, Christian materialism, soul
Date
2015
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Philosophia Christi
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17
Issue
2
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315-330
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