What is life? : : the originality, irreducibility, and value of life / / Josef Seifert.
This book makes four bold claims: 1) life is an ultimate datum, open to philosophical analysis and irreducible to physical reality; hence all materialist-reductionist explanations - most current theories - of life are false. 2) All life presupposes soul ( entelechy ) without which a being would at b...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1997] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 1997 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value inquiry book series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (189 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Editorial Foreword by H.G
- Callaway
- Preface by Robert Ginsberg
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Empirical Knowledge and Philosophy Face to Face with Life: A Fresh Start, 50 Years after Schrödinger
- ONE On the Metaphysical Essence and Absolute Irreducibility of Life: The Many Meanings of Life - and a Brief Discourse on Method
- 1 Introductory Remarks on the Essence of Life as Bios and Zoee
- 2 Being in Itself and Self-Motion as Universal Properties of All Life - The Analogous Meaning of Self-Motion and Freedom
- 3 Can Life Be Sufficiently Identified by Means of Self-Motion or Intrinsic Teleology, etc.? On the Character of Life as an Urphenomenon
- 4 Life as a Transcendental in the Medieval Sense and as a Pure Perfection
- 5 The Fundamentally Different Forms and Phenomena of Life
- 6 The Purpose of the Following Chapters
- TWO What is Biological Life? The Irreducibility of Vegetative Life ( Bios ) to Ordered and Chaotic Physical Systems
- 1 Irreducibility and Undefinability of Organic Life, yet Possibility of Its Essential Definition through Its Various Marks
- 2 The Empirical Marks of Biological Life and Two Scientific Attempts to Define Life through Them
- 3 The Essentially Necessary ( A Priori ) Characteristics of Biological Life Open to Philosophical Knowledge
- 4 Essentially Necessary ( A Priori ) Characteristics of Biological Life in Terms of Chaos Theory and Their Ambiguity
- 5 Two Irreducibilities of Organic Life to Material Systems Governed by Chaotic and Non-Chaotic Laws: Irreducibility in Essence and in Fact
- 6 How Do We Know Biological Life? THREE The Irreducibility of Mental Life and of Its Subject (Soul) to Ordered and Chaotic Physical Systems
- 1 The Immediate and Indubitable Givenness of Conscious Life
- 2 Four Arguments for Mental Life Inhering in a Spiritual Substance (Soul)
- 3 Life and Death: The Unity of Biological and Mental Life in the Human Being
- 4 The Death of the Human Being - Radical End of Human Life? On Death and Immortality as Subject of a New Book
- FOUR Value and Dignity of Human Life
- 1 The Value of Human Life and the Fourfold Root of Its Dignity
- 2 The Question About the Value of Human Life against the Background of Today's Intellectual and Political Landscape
- 3 What Is Dignity? 4 The Four Roots and Sources of Human Dignity
- 5 The Human Being Defined as a Being Capable of Transcending Itself: Human Dignity and Its Immanent and Transcendent Origins
- FIVE Dialogues with Scientists
- 1 On the Significance of Emphasizing the Many Meanings of Life
- 2 The Autonomy of Philosophy and that of Science with Respect to Life
- 3 Can We Stand Between or Beyond Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism? 4 The Question of Life as a Transdisciplinary Question
- 5 Mental Life Cannot Be Identified with the Brain
- 6 Can and Cannot in Philosophical Knowledge
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index.