LEADER 03598nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910957646503321 005 20251117074450.0 010 $a0-8132-1669-9 035 $a(CKB)2440000000014004 035 $a(OCoLC)646786260 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10267239 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000378043 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11275193 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000378043 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10339543 035 $a(PQKB)10714734 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24250 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3134714 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10267239 035 $a(OCoLC)922996366 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3134714 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000014004 100 $a20050801d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe soul of the person $ea contemporary philosophical psychology /$fAdrian J. Reimers 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cCatholic University of America Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8132-1453-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-293) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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 -- Light and the Powers of the Soul -- The Soul's Experience Postmortem -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThe Soul of the Person is a contemporary account of the metaphysical basis for the transcendence of the human person. In being directed toward truth, beauty, and goodness, the human person transcends the physical order and reveals himself as a spiritual, as well as a material, being. 606 $aSoul$xChristianity 606 $aChristianity$xPsychology 615 0$aSoul$xChristianity. 615 0$aChristianity$xPsychology. 676 $a128/.1 700 $aReimers$b Adrian J$01857716 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957646503321 996 $aThe soul of the person$94458674 997 $aUNINA