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The Evolution of the Soul
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The Evolution of the Soul Paperback - 1997

by Swinburne, Richard

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  • Title The Evolution of the Soul
  • Author Swinburne, Richard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York, NY
  • Date 1997-04-24
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP87491070
  • ISBN 9780198236986 / 0198236980
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.44 x 0.88 in (21.51 x 13.82 x 2.24 cm)
  • Reading level 1450
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethics, Thought and thinking
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97159831
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.1

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From the rear cover

Human beings have evolved from animals, and animals from inanimate matter; but what has evolved is qualitatively different from the inanimate matter from which it began. Both humans and the higher animals have a mental life of sensation, thought, purpose, desire, and belief. Although these mental states in part cause, and are caused by, brain states, they are distinct from them. Richard Swinburne argues that we can only make sense of this interaction by supposing that mental states are states of a soul, a mental substance in interaction with the body. Although both have a rich mental life, human souls, unlike animal souls, are capable of logical thought, have moral beliefs, have free will, and have an internal structure (so that their beliefs and desires are formed largely by other beliefs and desires inhering in the soul). Professor Swinburne concludes that there is no full scientific explanation available for the evolution of the soul, and almost certainly there never will be.

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