THE SOUL OF THE PERSON
A CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND DEDICATION III
PREFACE V
Notes xi
PART ONE: THE CENTRAL ISSUE 1
CHAPTER 1: THE STATUS OF THE QUESTION 1
A nature divided 1
The heart of the question: the reality of the spiritual 16
An integrated vision 22
The present project 38
Notes 41
PART TWO: THE MATERIAL AND THE SPIRITUAL 47
CHAPTER 2: THE EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE OF MATERIAL THINGS 48
Materiality and matter 48
Materialism 52
Being and existence 53
Essence: What a thing is 56
Significance and meaning 62
The nature of physical things 65
Conclusion 70
Notes 73
CHAPTER 3: SPIRIT AND THE SPIRITUAL 75
The Characteristics of the Spiritual 75
The good as good 79
The true as true 88
Being as being 92
Beauty 93
Status and characteristics of the spiritual in human nature 100
Notes 103
PART THREE: SPIRITUAL ACTION OF THE MATERIAL BEING 105
CHAPTER 4: THE POWER TO KNOW 106
Belief 107
Ideas and Habits 116
Two senses of truth 165
The mind as a sign 172
Notes 179
CHAPTER 5: LOVE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE POWER TO CHOOSE 183
Values and action 183
Habit, will, and the practical dialectic 195
Practical syllogism: consciousness and the spiritual 204
"A sign developing" and "the meaning of life" 236
Consciousness puzzles 242
Understanding, belief, and personality 257
Consciousness, values, and the self 258
Notes 264
PART FOUR: METAPHYSICAL CONCLUSIONS 270
CHAPTER 6: REALITY AND NATURE OF THE SOUL 271
Materiality and materialism 272
That human being cannot be reduced to or explained as a purely physical system 289
The immaterial basis for human action 299
The soul: Real and immaterial 317
The soul's mode of being 322
Notes 329
EPILOGUE: GOD, THE PERSON, AND THE AFTERLIFE 333
The soul and God 334
Light and the powers of the soul 336
The soul's experience post-mortem 340
Conclusion 341
Notes 343
BIBLIOGRAPHY 344
INDEX 355