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The human quest for self-understanding is ancient. It transcends the boundaries between ordinary folk and philosophers and it over- laps with many academic disciplines, including psychology, sociology, philosophy and theology. Actually, the quest is not essentially academic; it is a human quest, pursued by persons in every age. With this in mind, philosopher C. Stephen Evans takes a look at the human sciences and their contribution to this self-understanding. Evans first presents a basic problem in these sciences today: the attack on the concept of personhood. He reviews the contemporary understanding of mind and brain: Is a person only a thinking machine or a programmed organism? Then he evaluates the impact of Auguste Comte, Sigmund Freud, J.B. Watson, B.F. Skinner and Emile Durkheim on what Evans terms ?

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Preserving the Person
• Subtitle: A Look at the Human Sciences
• Author: C. Stephen Evans
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9781573830263
• ISBN: 9781573830263
• ID: 08742856
• Publisher: Regent College Publishing,US
• Weight: 240 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 216 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1985

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