Meditation on a Prisoner: Towards Understanding Action and Mind. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Pre, 1975
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- Title
- Meditation on a Prisoner: Towards Understanding Action and Mind
- Author
- Pols, Professor Edward
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Pre
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809306794
- ISBN 13
- 9780809306794
In this brilliant analysis of mind-body problems Edward Pols adds new dimensions to the discussion of basic issues.
The prisoner is Socrates, who, in a series of actions involving moral decisions, finds himself under sentence of death, and who has now decided to undergo the sentence rather than accept the opportunity to escape provided by powerful friends. Pols takes as his point of departure Socrates naïve statement of the contrast between a scientific analysis of a moral action and the point of view taken by the agent himself, and his rejection of the adequacy of the scientific analysis.
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About the Author
Edward Pols is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the department at Bowdoin College.
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