Phenomenology of the Human Person
By: Robert Sokolowski.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780521888912; 9780521717663
Subjects: Human beings; Philosophical anthropology; Phenomenology
Description: In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things when they are presented to us through syntax. Sokolowski highlights the role of the spoken word in human reason and examines the bodily and neurological basis for human experience. Drawing on Husserl and Aristotle, as well as Aquinas and Henry James, Sokolowski here employs phenomenology in a highly original way in order to clarify what we are as human agents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The form of thinking; title: The content of thinking; title: The body and human action; title: Ancients and moderns.