Philosophical Anthropology An Introduction

includes index and biblioraphy

Part one: The human person , A corporeal-Spiritual being 1 Chapter 1: Philosophical Anthropology, or the philosophy of man 1. Philosophical reflection on the human person 2. The method of philosophical anthropology 3. Philosophical anthropology as it relates to other fields of philosophy and theology Chapter 2: Life and the degrees of life 1. The notion of life 2. Life as immanence and transcendence 3. General characteristics of living beings 4. Degrees of and operations of life Chapter 3: The soul , or the vital principle 1. Premise: from and matter, substandce and accidents 2. The soul as substantial form of living beings: Two definitions of soul Chapter 4: The living body 1. Inert matter and living body 2. The body as system: The idea of organism 3. The nation of organ: Anatomy and physiology 4. The causal relationship between soul and body 5. aThe body and corporeity 6. Origins and evolutionism 7. Cosmogenesis,biogenesis , and anthropogenesis Chapter 5: The faculties , or operative principles: Act and operation 1. Act and potency, operation and faculty 2. Faculty of the individual or faculty of the soul? 3. Typology and interaction of the human faculties Chapter 6: Human knowledge: The external senses 1. Cognitive life 2. Sense knowledge 3. External senses 4. Proper, common and per accidens sensibles Chapter 7: Human knowledge: Internal sense experience 1. External senses and internal senses 2. The common sense 3. Imagination 4. Cogitative power 5. Memory Chapter 8: Human knowledge: The intellect 1. intellectual knowledge 2. What we know with the intellect and how we know it 3. Self-awarensess, or self-knowledge 4. Intelligence and speech 5. The mind- body problem Chapter 9: Tendential dynamism and freedom 1. Tendencies and instincts 2. The plasticity of human tendencies 3. The will, or spiritual-type of tendency 4. The voluntariness of actions and freedom 5. Deterministic concepts Chapter 10: Affective dynamism 1. Philosophical reflections on affectivity 2. Terminological clarification 3. Tendencies and affections 4. Sensations , feelings and moods 5. The dynamism of the feelings 6. Typology of the affections 7. Affectivity and freedom Chapter 11: Sexuality 1. Corporeity and sexuality 2. Relations between man and woman 3. Integrating the sexual impulse into the idea of love as a gift 4. Sexuality and the maturation of the person Chapter 12: Spirituality , death ,and immortality 1. Monism, dualism and duality 2. The existential, or philosophical, problem of death 3. More on the soul-body relationship 4. Immateriality and immortality 5. At the origin of the person Part two: Personal self-Fulfillment , Between relationality and historicity Chapter 13: Who is the person ? 1. The centrality of the person 2. Phenomenological perspective and metaphysical perspective 3. Metaphysical analysis of the notion of person 4. Historical explanation of how the explanation of how the metaphysical notion of person developed Chapter 14:Freedom and self-fulfillment 1. The task of self-fulfillment 2. Authentic existence 3. Coherence and faithfulness 4. Persons and individuals 5. The experience of freedom 6. The experience of evil 7. The checkmate of pain 8. Self-fulfillment and self-transcendence Chapter 15: The relationality of the person 1. Originariness of relationality 2. Man is social by nature 3. Socializing tendencies and social virtues 4. Personal self-fulfillment and society 5. Individualist conceptions and collectivist conceptions Chapter 16: Culture 1. The meaning of the word culture 2. Three fundamental elements of culture 3. Culture and society Chapter 17: Values 1. Personal existence oriented toward values 2. Metaphysical analysis of value Chapter 18: work, feast and play 1. The work of man in the world 2. The notion of work Chapter 19: Time and history