Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part One. THE CENTRAL ISSUE -- 1. The Status of the Question -- A Nature Divided -- The Heart of the Question: The Reality of the Spiritual -- An Integrated Vision -- The Present Project -- Part Two. THE MATERIAL AND THE SPIRITUAL -- 2. The Existence and Essence of Material Things -- Materiality and Matter -- Materialism -- Being and Existence -- Essence: What a Thing Is -- Significance and Meaning -- The Nature of Physical Things -- Conclusion -- 3. Spirit and the Spiritual -- The Characteristics of the Spiritual -- The Good as Good -- The True as True -- Being as Being -- Beauty -- Status and Characteristics of the Spiritual in Human Nature -- Part Three. Spiritual Action of the Material Being -- 4. The Power to Know -- Belief -- Ideas and Habits -- Two Senses of Truth -- The Mind as a Sign -- 5. Love, Consciousness, and the Power to Choose -- Values and Action -- Habit, Will, and the Practical Dialectic -- Practical Syllogism: Consciousness and the Spiritual -- "A Sign Developing" and "The Meaning of Life" -- Consciousness Puzzles -- Understanding, Belief, and Personality -- Consciousness, Values, and the Self -- Part Four. Metaphysical Conclusions -- 6. Reality and Nature of the Soul -- Materiality and Materialism -- That Human Being Cannot Be Reduced to, or Explained as, a Purely Physical System -- The Immaterial Basis for Human Action -- The Soul: Real and Immaterial -- The Soul's Mode of Being -- Epilogue: God, the Person, and the Afterlife -- The Soul and God -- |