More Than Matter?: What Humans Really Are: Is There More to Life Than Molecules? - Softcover

Ward, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745962475 ISBN 13: 9780745962474

Publisher: Lion Books, 2010

Synopsis

'The question of what it is to be a human person is the biggest intellectual question of our day.' Keith Ward has taught philosophy and theology in British universities for the past 40 years, and he is now weighing in on a major intellectual battle: whether human persons are purely materialistic - nothing but matter - or whether there is another, deeply valuable part of us, which transcends our bodies in nature and moral worth: the soul. For centuries philosophers have debated the question, but the battle has taken the limelight through the works of the New Atheists. In this book Professor Ward guides the reader through a panoply of thinkers and traditions, arguing that there is more to humanity than bodies. In fact, he argues, there is more to the entire universe than the naked eye perceives. (And contrary to the New Atheist assertions, there are good philosophical arguments to back this up!)

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Review:

A wonderfully clear, exciting, and profound book. . . . Materialists beware!
Conor Cunningham
University of Nottingham
Keith Ward ably develops the idealist/dualist ideas that conscious mind is at the basis of reality and that the material world functions as the medium through which conscious finite minds express themselves to one another. . . . A refreshing philosophical defense of the view that irreducible minds can causally affect the material world in their purposeful pursuit of what is good. More Than Matter? is philosophically rigorous yet written with the broadly educated reader in mind. A great read I highly recommend it.
Stewart Goetz
Ursinus College"

-A wonderfully clear, exciting, and profound book. . . . Materialists beware!-
-- Conor Cunningham
University of Nottingham
-Keith Ward ably develops the idealist/dualist ideas that conscious mind is at the basis of reality and that the material world functions as the medium through which conscious finite minds express themselves to one another. . . . A refreshing philosophical defense of the view that irreducible minds can causally affect the material world in their purposeful pursuit of what is good. More Than Matter? is philosophically rigorous yet written with the broadly educated reader in mind. A great read -- I highly recommend it.-
-- Stewart Goetz
Ursinus College

About the Author:

Keith Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. A well-known broadcaster and presenter, his work straddles the boundaries between science, religion and philosophy, while his career has addressed topics from materialism to medical ethics.  His work in these fields is internationally respected, and he is today known as one of Britain's foremost philosopher-theologians.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lion Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0745962475
• ISBN 13: 9780745962474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224