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Recently the Wall Street Journal had Andrew Stark, a professor of strategic management at Toronto University reviewed a book of essays called The Soul Hypothesis. The key sentences that show the book’s prejudices, a limp Scientism they refer to as “Modern Science”, are revealed here:
While older thinkers were looking for a grand soul — the source of immortality, the seat of character, the spark of life — the book’s “soul” consists of only two qualities: the human capacities for voluntary action and mental consciousness. What worries the contributors is that even such a chastened soul — many of us would simply call it “the mind” — seems to have no place, or defensible existence, in the physical world that modern science describes.
Having banned any discussion of universals or the metaphysical, the authors have very little to go on. It’s a sad little book of 294 pages, rather like a life of my *nome de plume *Derek Jeter had he not been recruited by the Yankees – one photo in particular, where he is driving a bus, seemed particularly poignant.
Yes, the “older thinkers” were decidedly not looking for a “grand soul” but only placing it within a system of things they had already defined. But here, let my adopted mentor Professor Edward Feser explain here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/12/23/the-soul-in-the-aristotlean-thomist-view-by-edward-feser/
Yes, Virginia, there is a soul…and a Merry Christmas to you all from Aristotle and St. Thomas…
dj
Recently the Wall Street Journal had Andrew Stark, a professor of strategic management at Toronto University reviewed a book of essays called The Soul Hypothesis. The key sentences that show the book’s prejudices, a limp Scientism they refer to as “Modern Science”, are revealed here:
While older thinkers were looking for a grand soul — the source of immortality, the seat of character, the spark of life — the book’s “soul” consists of only two qualities: the human capacities for voluntary action and mental consciousness. What worries the contributors is that even such a chastened soul — many of us would simply call it “the mind” — seems to have no place, or defensible existence, in the physical world that modern science describes.
Having banned any discussion of universals or the metaphysical, the authors have very little to go on. It’s a sad little book of 294 pages, rather like a life of my *nome de plume *Derek Jeter had he not been recruited by the Yankees – one photo in particular, where he is driving a bus, seemed particularly poignant.
Yes, the “older thinkers” were decidedly not looking for a “grand soul” but only placing it within a system of things they had already defined. But here, let my adopted mentor Professor Edward Feser explain here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/12/23/the-soul-in-the-aristotlean-thomist-view-by-edward-feser/
Yes, Virginia, there is a soul…and a Merry Christmas to you all from Aristotle and St. Thomas…
dj
