Beyond the Centaur
Imagining the Intelligent Body
Published on 17. July 2014
Book
Hardback
140 pages
978-1-4982-0567-2 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond the Centaur questions the accuracy and usefulness of the virtually unquestioned ancient consensus that persons are composed of unequally valued, hierarchically stacked antagonistic components, usually soul or mind and body. Part I explores the gradual historical development of this notion of person. Part II consists of a thought experiment, examining an understanding of persons, not as stacked components, but as intelligent bodies--one entity. It explores how a new understanding of persons can affect in important and fruitful ways how we live: how we move, feel, think, believe, and die.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-0567-2 (9781498205672)
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07/2014
Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Margaret R. Miles is Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (2014), The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries(2017), and Recollections and Reconsiderations (2018)