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What Is a Human Being?: A Heideggerian View

What Is a Human Being?: A Heideggerian View

Paperback

Series: Modern European Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0521479371
ISBN13: 9780521479370
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 28 1995
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
This broad, ambitious study is about human nature--treated in a way quite different from the scientific account that influences so much of contemporary philosophy. Drawing on certain basic ideas of Heidegger, the author presents an alternative to the debate waged between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind that involves reconceiving the way we usually think about mental life. Olafson argues that familiar contrasts between the physical and the psychological break down under closer scrutiny. They need to be replaced by a conception of human being in which we are not entities compounded out of body and mind, but unitary entities that are distinguished by having a world, which is very different from simply being a part of the world.

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