Author: Calvin Martin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300085525
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this volume, Calvin Luther Martin proposes that the Europeans learned what they wished to learn from the native Americans, not what the Americans actually meant. Drawing on his own experience with native people and on their stories, he offers the reader a different conceptual landscape.
The Way of the Human Being
Author: Calvin Martin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300085525
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this volume, Calvin Luther Martin proposes that the Europeans learned what they wished to learn from the native Americans, not what the Americans actually meant. Drawing on his own experience with native people and on their stories, he offers the reader a different conceptual landscape.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300085525
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this volume, Calvin Luther Martin proposes that the Europeans learned what they wished to learn from the native Americans, not what the Americans actually meant. Drawing on his own experience with native people and on their stories, he offers the reader a different conceptual landscape.
What is the Human Being?
Author: Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415558441
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant's philosophy of human nature - which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick Frierson assesses Kant's theories and examines his critics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415558441
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant's philosophy of human nature - which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick Frierson assesses Kant's theories and examines his critics.
In Defense of the Human Being
Author: Thomas Fuchs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192898191
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves in the image of our machines, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192898191
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves in the image of our machines, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.
Being Human Being
Author: Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942774099
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Being Human Being express the power in ending the language of race entirely, bringing forth a new era in which the term "human", robust and newly re-envisioned, eradicates the need for the illusion of categorical racial boundaries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942774099
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Being Human Being express the power in ending the language of race entirely, bringing forth a new era in which the term "human", robust and newly re-envisioned, eradicates the need for the illusion of categorical racial boundaries.
Human Being
Author: Jocelyn Bryan
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334049342
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Drawing on recent research, this book provides a psychological perspective on key aspects of human nature and behaviour and reflects on the issues this raises for theology and ministry.
Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 0334049342
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Drawing on recent research, this book provides a psychological perspective on key aspects of human nature and behaviour and reflects on the issues this raises for theology and ministry.
What is a Human Being?
Author: Frederick A. Olafson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479370
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Olafson develops Heidegger's philosophy and yields a distinctive new alternative in the philosophy of mind.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479370
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Olafson develops Heidegger's philosophy and yields a distinctive new alternative in the philosophy of mind.
Optimal Human Being
Author: Kennon M. Sheldon
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135636257
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The phrase "optimal human being" is used to refer to the empirically documented features that tend to characterize high-quality human functioning. "Optimal human being" is a profile that is developed within this book by consulting what contemporary theorizing at different levels of analysis might have to say about what causes a optimal functioning
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135636257
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The phrase "optimal human being" is used to refer to the empirically documented features that tend to characterize high-quality human functioning. "Optimal human being" is a profile that is developed within this book by consulting what contemporary theorizing at different levels of analysis might have to say about what causes a optimal functioning
The Science of Being Human
Author: Marty Jopson
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789291682
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A fascinating book detailing the latest cutting-edge science on what it means to be human.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789291682
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A fascinating book detailing the latest cutting-edge science on what it means to be human.
A Philosophy of the Human Being
Author: Julian A. Davies
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761845164
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book is an accessible text that explores what it means to be human. It is designed for an introductory course in Philosophy of the Human Being and contains an abundance of current examples, with embedded quotations from philosophers and selections from contemporary writers following the chapters. The author provides an introduction to philosophy, then discusses the topics of human sociability, intelligence, freedom, duality, individuality, and immortality. He concludes by highlighting the contrast between realism and materialism. This systematic approach focuses on issues, with a minimum of metaphysical superstructure and jargon, and provides connections between the readings. Book jacket.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761845164
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book is an accessible text that explores what it means to be human. It is designed for an introductory course in Philosophy of the Human Being and contains an abundance of current examples, with embedded quotations from philosophers and selections from contemporary writers following the chapters. The author provides an introduction to philosophy, then discusses the topics of human sociability, intelligence, freedom, duality, individuality, and immortality. He concludes by highlighting the contrast between realism and materialism. This systematic approach focuses on issues, with a minimum of metaphysical superstructure and jargon, and provides connections between the readings. Book jacket.
Understanding the Human Being
Author: Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879341005
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879341005
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description