By Jeff Bergner
This essay bargains a brand new and strikingly unique interpretation of Western suggestion. It explores the "metaphysics of Moses" within the Torah, the Greek concept of soul and the significance of the physique in old church Christianity. modern-day traditional wisdom--that modernity is based in materialism and that theology presents an antidote--is precisely backwards; early glossy philosophy completely rejected the physicality of Christianity in want of guy as basically brain, and German idealist philosophy reworked guy as basically brain into modern guy of ego. in doing so, it additionally demonstrated a foundation for contemporary clinical determinism rooted in human intentions.
The essay is sweeping in scope--yet understated, based and humane. It deals a lot wanted tips for the way to dwell a considerate, even noble lifestyles in contemporary world.
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