Phenomenology of the Human PersonCambridge University Press, 2008 M05 12 In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things when they are presented to us through syntax. Sokolowski highlights the role of the spoken word in human reason and examines the bodily and neurological basis for human experience. Drawing on Husserl and Aristotle, as well as Aquinas and Henry James, Sokolowski here employs phenomenology in a highly original way in order to clarify what we are as human agents. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absence accidental achieved action activity agent intellect agent of truth animals Aquinas Aristotle Aristotle’s articulation become Bickerton bodily brain bring categorial Chapter cognitive concept dative declarative define definition Derek Bickerton Descartes dimension discourse distinction distinguish Dwight Eisenhower Edmund Husserl eidos Eisenhower engaged entity essence essentials experience express fact field find first flow formal grammatical Gregory Currie human conversation human person Husserl Ibid identifiable identity imagination intellect intelligible species internal word involves judgment kind language lens leopard listener logic look manifestation Max Hastings meaning Metaphysics Michael Oakeshott mind natural attitude Nicomachean Ethics object occurs ourselves ousia perceive perception Phenomenology philosophical picture predication present problem properties propositional reflection protolanguage rational reason scientific sense shape signals signifies simply someone speak speaker specific speech spoken statement Strether Summa theologiae syntax term thinking Thomas Aquinas thought Topper and Brandy tree understanding University Press veracity wish